Quotes & Sayings About Failing To Plan

Living in a dream of the future is considered a character flaw. Living in the past, bathed in nostalgia, is also considered a character flaw. Living in the present moment is hailed as spiritually admirable, but truly ignoring the lessons of history or failing to plan for tomorrow are considered character flaws ... I wanted to know how to inhabit time in a way that wasn't a character flaw. — Sarah Manguso

Remember, failing to plan is planning to fail. — Ross Elkins

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Hope is not a plan. — Harrison Jones

In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different. — Andrew Williams

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

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work. — Condoleezza Rice

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all. — Loraine Boettner

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan. — Mark McCormack

You are not here by accident today," she said. "God has a plan and purpose for your life. People are so afraid of failing, but if God wants you to do something, you don't have to worry about failing because God gets results. He gives you wisdom to do what he wants you to do. — Judy Christie

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. — Klemens Von Metternich

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen. — M.B. Dallocchio

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist. — Grant Cardone

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail. — Seth Godin

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. — Harvey MacKay

Failing to plan is planning to fail — Alan Lakein

Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap. — Mary Anne Radmacher

If you fail to plan, you pretty much plan to fail. — Jillian Michaels

Failing to plan, is like planning to fail. — Stephen McCranie

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses. — Robert Kiyosaki

The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. — Ronald Reagan

Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life. — Wallace Stegner

We often think that the ideal stance is to give up one's life for a dream: nothing could be further from the truth. In order to achieve our dream, we need to preserve our life and we must, therefore, know how to avoid those things that threaten us. The more we plan our steps, the more chance there is that we will go wrong, because we are failing to take into consideration four things: other people, life's teachings, passion and calm. The more we feel we are in control of things, the farther off we are from controlling anything. — Paulo Coelho

It is quite possible that, even if you set the most relevant, realistic goals, you may not achieve them in the way or the time you wanted to. Life may throw something unexpected in your path, which stops you from achieving what you want, when you want. This is not failure. Feeling like you have failed is bound to lead to low mood, and can often come about if things haven't quite gone according to plan. However, the best thing to do is to draw a mental line under the experience, learn from what has happened and try again. As long as you are still trying, you are working towards your long-term aims; and as long as you are doing that, you are never truly failing. — Anna Barnes

Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards. — Amy Lockwood

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals? — Brian Tracy

WINTER SPOILER KINDA
Cinder stared at his whitened knuckles and struggled for something meaningful to say. Her grand plan of revolution and change had just begun and already she felt like a failure. This seemed worse than failing the people of Luna, though. She'd failed the people she cared about most in the universe.
Finally, she whispered, "I'm so sorry, Thorne."
"Yeah," he said. "Me too. — Marissa Meyer

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail. — Napoleon Hill

We fail because we give up, and we give up because we never had a plan in the first place — Robin Sieger