Top 100 Life Planning Quotes
#1. I used to be afraid of dying. Now I'm afraid of not living. There's a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.
Neal Shusterman
#2. You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
Taylor Momsen
#3. Formulate a specific game plan ... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.
Robert G. Allen
#5. Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow
John Lennon
#6. I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
Ingmar Bergman
#7. So really there's almost no point in planning anything out at all, because life is so infinitely complex that you can almost never just take a straight road from A to B without going via the whole rest of the alphabet first, and all because a butterfly happened to flap its wings in Thailand
Andrew Blackman
#8. If the hare makes too many missteps and has to keep adjusting, the tortoise wins. If the tortoise spends too much time planning each step, the hare wins.
Paul Kalanithi
#9. I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.
Kenneth Oppel
#10. This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals.
Alastair Reynolds
#11. Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
Edna Ferber
#12. So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.
Daniel Silva
#13. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
#14. As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.
Edward Hoagland
#15. Planning is the only way to keep yourself on track. Plan your moments to be joyous. Plan your days to be filled with peace. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. When you know where you are going, the universe will clear a path for you.
Iyanla Vanzant
#16. To assume that I can even begin to chart a 'straight' path is probably the best way I can take myself 'straight' to the very place I don't want to go.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. The window of opportunity to plan and prepare for the end of his life had closed gradually. Any cracks left open to talk candidly were tenuous and fleeting.
Lisa J. Shultz
#18. But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.
Rachel Vincent
#19. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.
Bernard Cornwell
#21. I wondered if I was an error of God's planning that would be fixed at the end of my life.
Ann Brashares
#22. Life is short. Everyone's forever planning for the future. No one lives in the moment anymore.
Dick Houston
#23. Lettie Pepeprcorn!' She hissed. 'Stop worrying and do something useful.
Sam Gayton
#24. I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.
Ann Nocenti
#25. They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, I'm almost ready. I've got a few things to take care of and then we can be reunited.
Sanjida Kay
#26. Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69)
Injap Sia
#28. Don't worry about planning every step of your life.
Rick Wagoner
#29. Tod Donald rarely did anything voluntarily, or with planning, or even with intent acknowledged to himself; he found himself doing one thing, and then he found himself doing another, and that, as he saw it, was the way one lived along, never deciding, never helping.
Shirley Jackson
#30. Life happens whilst you're planning other things.
John Lennon
#33. Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.
A.E. Samaan
#34. Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.
Shems Friedlander
#35. Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Allen Saunders
#36. Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.
Elizabeth George
#37. Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee you one thing.. those who put an investment program in place will have a lot more money when they come to retire than those who never get around to it.
Noel Whittaker
#38. In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.
Eraldo Banovac
#39. A lot of good days..makes a great life !!
Each day is important. Plan & execute it meticulously.
Manoj Arora
#40. Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#42. We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.
Crestless Wave
#43. It's good to plan, but don't let the planning take the place of doing.
Karen McQuestion
#44. It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world.
C. JoyBell C.
#45. Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.
Mary Stewart
#46. You can't manage time. You can only manage your life. You can't strategically plan time, you can only plan your life.
Farshad Asl
#47. If you think Thanksgiving has been fun, just wait until Christmas."...
The doors slammed shut with a muffled thud, and all he could think about was the revenge she could be planning. He'd never looked forward to anything more in his life. "Game on.
Sara Humphreys
#48. The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.
Daniel Meyer
#50. Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives
you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
Brian Tracy
#51. A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-"
"A purpose?" Jennika squints, as she cocks her head and steps closer. "And just what exactly might that be? You planning to take over her garden? Apprentice as an herbal healer? I had much higher hopes for you, Daire.
Alyson Noel
#52. Plastic gods are safe. Plastic gods don't mess with you. Plastic gods don't matter much; they fit in a small crevice of the life you want, the life you were planning to have. And when everything in life is working . . . plastic gods feel like enough.
Jennie Allen
#53. Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.
Jane Jacobs
#54. The person who does not plan his life is basically planning to fail.
Sunday Adelaja
#55. Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.
Debbie Ford
#56. While you can't control everything, you can control more than you think, and you can live your life with a plan that will dramatically improve your chances of ending up at a destination you choose.
Michael Hyatt
#57. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#58. If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.
Stedman Graham
#59. This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.
Celso Cukierkorn
#60. Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
John Lennon
#61. What could be a better use of your time than establishing a game plan for your life?
Michael Hyatt
#62. It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.
Venita VanCaspel
#64. I am helpless.
I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things.
My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it "Entourage."
This is how bad your life can get.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
Vikrmn
#66. I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.
Britt Ekland
#67. In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?
Michael Hyatt
#68. Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
David J. Schwartz
#69. The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Aaron Patzer
#71. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.
Carlos Wallace
#72. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
#73. Maybe you should've let God do the planning, rather than doing it yourself.
C.B. Cook
#74. I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.
Lisa J. Shultz
#75. As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.
Lisa J. Shultz
#76. Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission.
Manoj Arora
#77. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
Robert Burns
#78. Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.
Jill Conner Browne
#79. Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
Fulton J. Sheen
#80. He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred and filth. Then, I guess after what I was planning to do to save a life, I wasn't too dissimilar to him.
Mercy Cortez
#81. Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#82. Anytime a sage displays humanness - in regard to money, food, sex, relationships - we are shocked, shocked, because we are planning to escape life altogether, not live it, and the sage who lives life offends us.
Ken Wilber
#83. What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.
("New York Blues")
Cornell Woolrich
#84. As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc.
George Harrison
#85. People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.
Gary Chapman
#86. Can't get a read on you," he noted after a few beats. "You either just got a late life offer from the Colts to be their starting tight end or you're planning to kidnap someone to torture them.
Kristen Ashley
#87. I was too busy writing sad ballads to unrequited love in my head and planning a life where my hand would be my boyfriend.
T.J. Klune
#88. Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job
Sunday Adelaja
#89. But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
Jeannette Walls
#90. Some people spend their life studying maps but never start the journey; other people blast off the starting line full speed ahead without first charting a course. Most of us could benefit from a better balance between planning and doing.
Gregory D. Kincaid
#92. Some of the best things in life come when you're not planning on them. It's important to see them for the gift they are.
Susan Crandall
#93. If you don't have a plan for your life, someone else does.
Michael Hyatt
#94. Are you planning on asking my daughter's permission to ravish me as I deserve? If so, please take heed when she informs you that I am lonely and need a woman in my life. She's been nagging me for the last five years to find one."
"In your dreams, bat boy.
Katie MacAlister
#95. I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me.
Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem
#96. We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle
of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing
the surprises of each moment.
Gina Greenlee
#97. By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates
#98. Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!
Leslie W.P. Garland
#99. You're my all-in Della. I'll throw it all away for you. I just want you. I'm all in, baby. This life with you, I'm planning on us.
Abbi Glines
#100. What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed
Darnell Lamont Walker
