best quotations about
Planning |
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Quotations
 | Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 13 likes |
 | In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 10 likes |
 | If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Thomas La Mance, American humorist 9 likes |
 | To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 7 likes |
 | One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 6 likes |
 | A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 5 likes |
 | Plans are nothing; planning is everything. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 5 likes |
 | You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | From the moment you have a plan, you are not a revolutionary anymore. — Daniel Cohn-Bendit, German politician & activist 4 likes |
 | I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
| Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 4 likes |
| Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | 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, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | 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 Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 4 likes |
 | If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. — Harvey Mackay, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | 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, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | You have to think anyway, so why not think big? — Donald Trump, 1946-, President of the USA 2 likes |
| 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, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
 | Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. — Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian 2 likes |
 | The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 1 likes |
 | What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do. |
 | A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. |
 | Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning. |
 | How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure! |
 | An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing. |
 | A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
 | If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. |
Latin Quotes
 | Look behind, look here, look ahead. Espice, adspice, prospice. 103 likes |
 | Bad is the plan that cannot change. Malum consilium quod mutari non potest. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 49 likes |
 | The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena. Gladiator in arena consilium capit. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 25 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | It is better to think before doing something than to repent later. Προβουλεύεσθαι κρείσσον προ των πράξεων ή μετανοείν. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | For every action consider what has led to it and what follows it and thus proceed. Εφ’ εκάστου έργου, σκόπει τα καθηγούμενα και τα ακόλουθα αυτού και ούτως έρχου επ’ αυτού. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | Man plans and God laughs. 3 likes |
