COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

3/09/2010

Plan to make a difference.

We do make a difference -- one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
- Stephen Covey

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones of them.
- Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome (121-180 AD)

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
- Bernard Baruch, stock broker, advisor to presidents Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, (1870-1965)

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra, baseball catcher (1925-present)

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
- Lester Robert Bittel (b. 1918), writer

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved.
- Williams Jennings Bryan, lawyer, orator, three time candidate for president (1860-1925).

Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's is easy to beat most folks.
- Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach, University of Alabama's Crimson Tide.

You can never plan for the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke

Make not little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
- Daniel H. Burnham, architect (1846-1912).

"Would you tell me which way I ought to go from here?" asked Alice.
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get," said the Cat.
"I really don't care where" replied Alice.
"Then it doesn't much matter which way you go," said the Cat.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
-- Madame Chiang (b. 1898), Chinese educator, reformer

Planning lies with men; success lies with heaven.
- Chinese proverb

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan even though they rarely stick to their plan.
- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

Before beginning, plan carefully.
- Marcus Tulius Cicero, Roman statesman and orator (106-43 BC).

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.
- Confucius, Chinese philosopher and religious leader (551-479 BC).

If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney (1901-66),

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
- Douglas H. Everett

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker

It's not the plan that's important, it's the planning.
- Dr. Gramme Edwards

Plans are worthless. Planning is essential.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, general and president (1890-1961)

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, general and president (1890 - 1969)

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
- T.S. Elliott

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, poet (1803-1882)

Long-range planning works best in the short term.
- Euripides, poet (480-406 AD).

As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery, poet and pilot (1900-1944)

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe.
-- Anatole France (1844-1924), French Writer

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
- Napoleon Hill

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.
- Horace

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
- Thomas Huxley

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce, writer

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
- Stanely Judd

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Immanuel Kant

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
- Chuck Knox

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
- Alan Lakein, writer

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).

In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.
- General George Patton (1947).

A good plan today is better that a perfect plan tomorrow.
- Geoge S. Patton

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher and stateman (4 BC-65 AD).

You see things and say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw (1949)

If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.
- N. Peale

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
- Gloria Steinam, The Time Factor (1980)

A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
- John Steinbeck, The Pearl

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefor, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American writer

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American writer

Planning is a process of choosing among  many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.
- N. Peale


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