Quotations about

Planning

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, “At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.”

—Sharon Salzberg

Adventure is just bad planning.

—Roald Amundsen

The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

—Benjamin Disraeli

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

—Joseph Campbell

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

—Malcolm X

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

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will, and that can be rather wonderful.

—Victoria Connelly in At Home with Mr. Darcy

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

—Unknown

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood… Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

—Daniel H. Burnham

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

—George S. Patton

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

—Homer

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

—Joseph Campbell

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

—Napoleon Hill