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50+ Inspiring Planning Quotes to Motivate Your Success!

Jeroen de Flander
art of performance by Jeroen De Flander

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

1.“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

2.“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

3.“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”–Wooden

4.”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

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

6.”Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.”–Johnson

7.”We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.”–AbrahamLincoln

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

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

10.”Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage”–Zig Ziglar

Quotes for Planning 11 – 20

11.“Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.”–Albert Einstein

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

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

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

15.“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”–Eleanor Roosevelt

16.“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”–Antoine de Saint–Exupéry

17.“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”–Winston Churchill

18.“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

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

20.“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.”–Hazrat Inavat Khan

Planning Quotes

Planning Quotes 21 – 30

21.“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”–Allen Saunders

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

23.“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

24.“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”–Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes 31 – 40

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

32.“Planning for success will make you even more creative.”–Danielle LaPorte

33.“Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance.”–Stephen Keague

34.“Success doesn’t just happen. It’s planned for.”–Anonymous

35.“A plan is only as good as those who see it through.”–Anonymous

36.“Failing to plan is planning to fail.”–Allen Lakein

37.“Plan your work and work your plan.”–Napoleon Hill

38.“Sometimes, we need to stop analyzing the past and start planning the future.”–Anonymous

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

40.“Planning is everything.”–Dwight D. Eisenhower

The final 10 quotes

41.“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”–Benjamin Franklin

42.“Fail to plan, plan to fail.”–Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

44.“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

45.“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

46.“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

47.“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

48.“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”–Tom Landry

49.“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”–H. Stanley Judd

50.“A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.”–John Argenti