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

I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

- Anais Nin

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

- Nathaniel Branden

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

- Peter F. Drucker

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

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill

Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

- Peter Drucker

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

- Abraham Lincoln

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

- Benjamin Franklin

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

- Julia Child

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

- William Shakespeare

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

- Mabel Newcomber

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

- Arthur Ashe

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

- John Naisbitt



There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

- Brian Tracy



No wind serves a ship that has no port.

- Spanish proverb



Light tomorrow with today!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning



We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

- George Bernard Shaw



In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

- Louis Pasteur



There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

- Peter F. Drucker



When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

- W. Clement Stone



Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

- Arnold Toynbee



Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. Proverbs 15:22, NIV translation

- Bible



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

- Gloria Steinem



First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus



When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

- Napoleon Hill



Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

- Thomas Alva Edison



The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promis'd joy.

- Robert Burns



It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.

The Hobbit

- J. R. R. Tolkien



Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir people's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that your children and grandchildren are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Attributed to Daniel H. Burnham, 1910. Slightly modified by Jone Johnson Lewis.

- Daniel H. Burnham



Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon



Nothing happens unless first a dream.

- Carl Sandburg