Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein

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

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.
Confucius

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
Spike Lee

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Proverbs 24:27 (KJV)

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

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

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.
Pablo Picasso

Just because you made a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
Taylor Swift

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret Thatcher

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Richard Cushing

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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