Preparation And Planning Quotes:

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Success, Stress, Congratulations, Inventions And Inventors, Planning For Success

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiring Business

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

- Confucius

topic: Success, Congratulations, Failure, Planners, Chinese Philosophy

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Leadership And Management, Communicators

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Success, Business, Military, Military Strategy, Modern Era

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

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Poor Planning, Lost Dreams

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Makin Money, Market Risk

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, War, 4th Of July, Management Motivation, Inspirational Softball

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Disappointment, Worst, Plans, Preparation And Planning, Prepare For The Worst

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

- Howard Ruff

topic: Inspirational, Rain, Ark, Inspiration And Life, Top 100

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Kids, Hard Work, Best Husband, Be Your Best

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

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Powerful, Writing, Goal, Inspiring Writing, Desire To Win

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Commitment, Accomplishment, Inspirational Commitment, Kept Promises

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

- Larry Elder

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

topic: Inspirational, Goal, Wish, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

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

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

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

- Peter Drucker

topic: Work, Future, Entrepreneur, Inspirational Hard Work, Strategic Leadership

Chance favors the prepared mind.

- Louis Pasteur

source: Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

topic: Inspirational, Softball, Sports, Light Of My Life, Opportunity Knocks

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

- Richard Cushing

topic: Inspirational, Rain, Ark, Inspiration And Life, Planning Ahead

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

- Mark Cane

topic: Men, Doe, Planning, Meticulous, Preparation And Planning

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

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

topic: Class, Planning Ahead, Goal, Poor Planning, Middle Class

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

topic: Inspirational, Hands, People, Preparation And Planning, Future Planning

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

- Mike Vance

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

topic: Preparation, Time Management, Poor Planning, Preparation And Planning, Future Planning

Whether it is a call to action for blood drives, disaster relief, or just community outreach, the American Red Cross does an extraordinary job at not only meeting the immediate needs of a community, but also the preparation and planning for long-term support,

- Darius Rucker

topic: Jobs, Blood, Long, Call To Action, Disaster Relief

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

topic: Dream, Reality, People, Follow Your Passion, Dream Reality