Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps. -Hans Christian Andersen
Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen. -Sheila Ballantyne
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. -Djuna Barnes
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else. -Yogi Bera
This is like deja vu all over again. -Yogi Bera
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Bera
You can observe a lot just by watching. -Yogi Bera
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -Yogi Bera
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. -Ambrose Bierce
The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything. -Jerry Brown
At all times it is better to have a method. -Mark Caine
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. -Mark Caine
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie
"Cheshire Puss,...Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Even the longest journey begins with a single step. -Chinese Proverb
If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men. -Chinese Proverb
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Chinese Proverb
One step at a time is good walking. -Chinese Proverb
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. -Agatha Christie
It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situation -Robert Conklin
If it ain't broke, break it, then fix it. Otherwise you may be destined to address tomorrow's problems with yesterday's solutions. -Clark Crouch
If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably wind up no where! Clark Crouch
Leadership is getting the right people to do the right thing for the right reason in the right way at the right time at the right use of resources. -Clark Crouch
Strategic Planning is a process by which we can envision the future and develop the necessary procedures and operations to influence and achieve that future. -Clark Crouch
The proper and ethical task of a strategic planning consultant is to build client independence, not dependence on the consultant! -Clark Crouch
The result of planning should be effective, efficient, and economical...that is, suitable for the intended purpose, capable of producing the desired results, and involving the least investment of resources. -Clark Crouch
To be an effective facilitator, you need to enable participants to lead the group in the direction you know they need to go. -Clark Crouch
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! -Henry Ford
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. -Benjamin Franklin
It amazes me that most people spend more time planning next summer's vacation than they do planning the rest of their lives. -Patricia Fripp
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Andre Gide
Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore. -Franoise Giroud
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. -Thaddeus Golas
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. -Baltasar Gracian
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. -Edward Everett Hale
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. -Alexander Hamilton
Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence. -William Hastie
There is more than one path through the palms to the beach. -Hawaiian Proverb
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. -Napoleon Hill
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. -Conrad Hilton
No one was ever lost on a straight road. -Indian Proverb
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. -Washington Irving
For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. -Jeremiah 29:11, The Living Bible
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -Jack Kinder
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. -Henry Kissinger
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
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. -LeCorbusier
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. -Bruce Lee
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 system shortens the road to the goal. -Orison Swett Marden
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. -Peter Marshall
Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision. -John Naisbitt
The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the "who, what, where, why, and how much. -Paula Nelson
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. -Boris Pasternak
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made. -Jean Paul
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all. -Persian Proverb
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about. -Alexandra Ripley
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -Eleanor Roosevelt
When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it... -Rosalind Russell
We always plan too much and always think too little. -Joseph A. Schumpeter
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. -George Bernard Shaw
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny. -W. Clement Stone
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask! -W. Clement Stone
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. -Henry David Thoreau
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. -Leon Trotsky
No wind is favorable if we do not know into which port we are trying to sail. -Rev. Dale Turner
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. -Unknown
There they go. I must hurry after them for I am their leader! Unknown
To be effective is to the right thing. To be efficient is to do it the right way. -Unknown
Goals are SMART...Specific, Measurable, Achieveable, Realistic, and Timely. -Unknown
The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Unknown
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. -John Wanamaker
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful. -Wallace D. Wattles
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. -John Wooden