50+ Inspiring Planning Quotes to Motivate Your Success!

Planning is key to success. If you do not have a plan for your life or business, you will not get very far.

To motivate your planning activities here are my favourite planning quotes to get you going.

Planning Quotes

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Franklin

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
Hill

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Wooden

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Stone

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
Winston Churchill

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Johnson

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
Abraham Lincoln

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Yeats

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Emerson

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage
Zig Ziglar

Quotes for Planning 11 – 20

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.
Albert Einstein

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill

So live life with your eyes wide open so you can embrace unexpected moments because you never know when you will be inspired.
David Tutera

Just because you have planned something doesn’t mean it is going to happen.
Jung Lee

Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Planning Quotes 21 – 30

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Allen Saunders

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J.R.R. Tolkien

In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
Rose Tremain

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson

You can’t plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.
Gordon B. Hinckley

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Peter F. Drucker

Quotes 31 – 40

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan Lakein

Planning for success will make you even more creative.
Danielle LaPorte

Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance.
Stephen Keague

Success doesn’t just happen. It’s planned for.
Anonymous

A plan is only as good as those who see it through.
Anonymous

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Allen Lakein

Plan your work and work your plan.
Napoleon Hill

Sometimes, we need to stop analyzing the past and start planning the future.
Anonymous

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius

Planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The final 10 quotes

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!
Benjamin Franklin

Fail to plan, plan to fail.
Hillary Rodham Clinton

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.
Confucius

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

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso