Plans & Planning
- The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
gang aft a-gley.--Robert Burns ("To a Mouse")
[Popularly misquoted as: The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray, or The best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray.]
- Choose to live life on purpose, to love intentionally and to plan accordingly!–-Wayne Cordeiro (Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion)
- Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.--Winston Churchill
- Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.--Barbara G. Harrison
- I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine, Sept. 16, 2003)
- If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.--Jim Rohn
- If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.--Edward Everett Hale
- In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.--Titus Livy
- In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.--Howard Duff
- It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.--Susan Gregg Gilmore (Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen)
- Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.--Marchant
- Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.--D.B. Hudson
- Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.--Douglas Pagels
- No plan originated by another will be as sympathetically handled as ones own plan.--Conrad H. Lanza (Napoleon and Modern Warfare)
- Organizations don’t get things done. Plans and programs don’t get things done. Only people get things done. Organizations plans and programs either help or hinder people.--Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
- Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.--Confucius
- Plan in decades. Think in years. Work in months. Live in days.--Nic Haralambous ("Advice from 30-Year-Old Me to 20-Year-Old Me")
- Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.--Alan Lakein
- Plans are nothing; planning is everything.--Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.--Peter F. Drucker
- Plans get you into things but you must work your way out.--Will Rogers
- Strategic planning is worthless--unless there is first a strategic vision.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends)
- There is enough time for everything in the course of a day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.--Lord Chesterfield (Letters to His Son, April 14, 1747)
- To act intelligently and effectively, we still must have a plan. To the proverb which says, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", I would add the words "and a road map".--Cecile M. Springer
- When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.--Napoleon Hill, American Author, Speaker, Motivational Writer
- When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.--Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
- Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!--Jane Austen
- You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.--Harry S. Truman
- You need a plan ... but don't become consumed by it. Winds change.--Joseph Ehrhard (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
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