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| "Plan" courtesy FEMA. |
Want success and happiness?
What safety for your family and friends? (That's where the insurance angle comes in.)
What's your plan? It seems everyone has an opinion about "planning" or the lack there of.
Whether the plan works or not, it seems often planning took part in the process along the way to your final destination...good or bad.
Here are some quotes to ponder.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret Thatcher
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
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
Alan Rickman
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill
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 J. Toynbee
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
Katherine Heigl
In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.
Alan Kulwicki
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Denis Waitley
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Euripides
You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
Donald Rumsfeld
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill
Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
Donald Rumsfeld
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine
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
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Peter Marshall
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Paul J. Meyer
Have a bias toward 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
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Donald Trump
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
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Thomas S. Monson
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley
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
Before beginning, plan carefully.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.
Minnie Pearl
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson
As I was compiling the list, it seems the artistic types (artists, musicians, actors) attributed their success to spontaneity and chance, while the more "conservative" and business types (politicians, generals, etc.) focused on planning, religious faith, and motivation to reach ones goals.
Just an observation.
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