Planning Quotes

Most popular planning quotes

Amazing how many hours slip by while planning how to use your time!

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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. - Laura Ingalls Wilder quote.
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.  When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca quote.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.  When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

ambition

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

aspiration

You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke quote.
You can never plan the future by the past.

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The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design. - Jeremy Bentham quote.
The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design.
Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
The best-laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley. - Robert Burns quote.
The best-laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley.
To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it. - Carl von Clausewitz quote.
To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
Strategic planning does not deal with future decisions.  It deals with the futurity of present decisions.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower quote.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
A. Lakein How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
No plan survives first contact with the enemy.