"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"Plans are the canvas upon which we paint our dreams."

- J.J. Goldwag

"Plans are the backbone of progress; they provide structure to our ambitions."

- Josh S. Levin

"Plans are like a safety net, giving us the confidence to reach for the stars."

- Jodi Picoult

"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential."

- Winston Churchill

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

- Alan Lakein

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”

- H. L. Hunt

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”

- Daniel Burnham

“How can I get from here to where I want to be? If you are going to improve your life and realize your potential, you will have to figure out where you are now; where you want to be; and how you get from one to the other.”

- Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy

“If you should visit a ship in port and ask the captain for his next port-of-call, he’ll tell you in a single sentence. Even though the captain cannot see his port, his destination, for full 99% of the voyage, he knows it’s there, and barring an unforeseen and highly unlikely catastrophe, he’ll reach it. All he has to do is keep doing certain things every day. If someone asked you for your next port-of-call, your goal, could you tell him? Is your goal clear and concise in your mind? Do you have it written down?”

- Earl Nightingale

“It would be impossible for a ship to come into a certain port without a compass as it would be for a man or woman to make any headway on the sea of life without a purpose. Nobody ever drifts into anything desirable. To get the thing worth while you must know where your goal lies, and you must make straight for it, past all the rocks and sandbars.”

- Orison Swett Marden

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.”

- Jim Rohn

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us."

- Albert Ellis

"Misery might love company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties."

- Bill Ivey

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly live."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

- Garrison Keillor

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle