Future Planning Quotes

• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Time

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Planning Ahead, Goal

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  My Future, Future Plans, Died

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.46, St. Martin's Griffin

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

  Emily Giffin

  Poor Planning, Failing, Plans

  Emily Giffin (2012). “Where We Belong: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

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• There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

  Douglas Everett

  Motivational, Dream, Persistence

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• Actors never discuss future plans.

  James Earl Jones

  Actors, Future Plans, Plans

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• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

  Larry Elder

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.62, Macmillan

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hands, People

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• The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Business, Future

  "Technology, Management and Society".

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

  Gary Larson

  Opportunity, Blood, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Morning

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• Planning is bringing the future into the present.

  Mike Vance

  Preparation, Time Management, Poor Planning

  Mike Vance, Diane Deacon (1996). “Break Out of the Box”, Career PressInc

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

  Howard Ruff

  Inspirational, Monday, Time

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• Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

  Richard Cushing

  Inspirational, Rain, Planning Ahead

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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