118+ Planning Quotes

Are you looking for ways to stay motivated and inspired when it comes to planning and organizing your life? Get inspired with these planning quotes! There’s something here for everyone, whether you’re looking for words of encouragement, a thought-provoking saying, or a bit of wisdom to lead you on the right path.

Planning quotes are a great way to stay motivated, stay organized, and keep focused on your goals. Whether you’re looking for a quote to inspire you to start planning or looking for a quote to remind you to stay organized and be prepared, these powerful planning quotes can help you reach success.

Planning can help you achieve success in both personal and professional life, and planning quotes can provide the motivation and inspiration you need to reach those goals. From words of wisdom from historical figures to modern business experts, these quotes can help you stay on track and be successful. Take a look through this collection of planning quotes and find the one that can keep you motivated and inspired as you work towards your goals.

Best Planning Quotes

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. Benjamin Franklin

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof. Shannon Alder

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything. Jerry Brown

Get up earlier and take some time to plan your day. Every extra minute you spend planning will add more time and power to your life. Anonymous

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill

Plan your work and work your plan. Napoleon Hill

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

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Robert Frost

Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance. Stephen Keague

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposely. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. William A. Ward

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill

It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date. Roger von Oech

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves. Beretolt Brecht

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. Thomas Edison

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. Napoleon Hill

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Jack Welch

Set your intentions for the week. People who plan achieve. Anonymous

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 H. Everett

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made. Jean Paul

Strategic planning will help you uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them. Robert J. McKain

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. Eleanor Roosevelt

If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan. Terence McKenna

Take a look through this collection of deepest quotes and find the one that can keep you motivated and inspired as you work towards your goals.

Famous Planning Quotes

In games, you have plans, you have strategies, and you follow them. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

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

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

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets. Bessie Coleman

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go. J.P. Morgan

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

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice. Saul Bellow

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

Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. Fitzhugh Dodson

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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 S. Truman

Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. Richard Cushing

The sooner you start planning your life, the sooner you will live the life you dream of. Hans Glint

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

Plans are things that don’t change. Fujio Cho

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought. Miguel De Cervantes

Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you. Zig Ziglar

Success doesn’t just happen. It’s planned for. Anonymous

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I always say don’t make plans, make options. Jennifer Aniston

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau

I ain’t Martin Luther King. I don’t need a dream. I have a plan. Spike Lee

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

If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail. Tariq Siddique

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. Earl Nightingale

Good luck is the result of good planning. Anonymous

Good planning without good working is nothing. Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you’re ready, get out there and start doing. Taylor Momsen

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Allen Lakein

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Daniel Burnham

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

With beautiful funny inspirational quotes, you can explore life’s greatest lessons and gain new perspectives.

Powerful Planning Quotes

I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process. Oprah Winfrey

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is still small. Sun Tzu

Dreaming after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. George S. Patton

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true. Edwin Louis Cole

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

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

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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy

The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. Ronald Reagan

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan. Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil)

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

Planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us. Richard I. Winwood

An hour of planning can save you  hours of doing. Dale Carnegie

Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

Most people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. John L. Beckley

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe. Anatole France

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. Edward Everett Hale

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin

. 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

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Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement. Paul J. Meyer

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done…you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. Lil Wayne

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and most of all self-discipline. Thomas J. Stanley

No plan ever failed due to good planning. Jury Nel

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well, wisest and best of all. Malcom Forbes

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have. Nido Qubein

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. Fitzhugh Dodson

Just because you made a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen. Taylor Swift

The backbone of success is hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance. Mia Hamm

A goal without a plan is just a wish. Anonymous

A plan is only as good as those who see it through. Anonymous

Taking time to reflect and ponder on the powerful messages within inspirational time flies quotes can encourage you.

Motivational Planning Quotes

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker

Sometimes, we need to stop analyzing the past and start planning the future. Anonymous

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general’s tent. Stephen R. Covey

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Leonard Bernstein

Have a bias towards action let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Indira Gandhi

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

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

Planning for success will make you even more creative. Danielle LaPorte

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one. J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Speaking from my personal experiences, setting goals, along with a detailed action plan, has actually changed my life from one cast in frustration to one of purpose. Catherine Pulsifer

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. Brian Tracy

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential. Winston Churchill

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

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. Bryant McGill

The Most Successful People are those who are good at Plan B. James Yorke

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

If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has  more letters. Claire Cook

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. Margaret Thatcher

Always have a plan, and belive in it. Nothing happens by accident. Chuck Knox

A plan that is not written, is just an idea. Dwain Siady

For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. African Proverb

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus

It’s not the plan that’s important, it’s the planning. Dr. Gramme Edwards

Once you’re more aware of people’s needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you’re responsible for your own well-being, too. Deepak Chopra

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de Saint Exupery

If you don’t plan, how do you plan to succeed? Anonymous

These beautiful reflection quotes will help you find the courage to make each day count.