“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.” – William Hutchinson Murray
“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.” – Dale E. Turner
“If you don’t know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?” – Basil S. Walsh
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” – Fitzhugh Dodson
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” – Napoleon Hill
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow.” – Norwegian Proverb
“An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.” – Basil S. Walsh
“Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.” – Og Mandino
“Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.” – Will Rogers
“To live for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” – Robert M. Pirsig
“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.” – Ben Okri
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” – Paul Valery
“Indeed one’s faith in one’s plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment and your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself.” – Unknown
“My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.” – Gene Oliver
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” – Roger Babson
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” – Winston Churchill
“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone… The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.” – W. Edwards Deming
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.” – Charles Lindbergh
“Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.” – Dale E. Turner
“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.” – Eric Hoffer
“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.” – Hazel Henderson
