Best Fearless Men Quotes | New Year’s Edition

If you read yesterday’s post you’re familiar with my disdain for New Year’s Resolutions! Instead, I suggest people really think through what they really want to zero in on the next year, and create a plan to have a New Year’s Focus on what they want to change. With that, I’ve collected some quotes that I find profound and inspiring on that front.[divider]

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

This quote has been attributed in different forms to Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill, Harvey MacKay, and others. Despite not knowing exactly who said it first, it’s a present reminder that without specifically aiming at something–and thinking through how to get there–you’re bound to wind up nowhere. But you can rest assured, if you keep making and executing well-made plans, you’re going to keep learning and something will gain traction.

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

-Gloria Steinem

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I found this statement confusing and profound at the same time. What is this war hero really saying? In the midst of battle and troubling circumstances plans change, shift, fall through. But without doing the legwork of preparation, there’s not structure built to sustain the onslaught when it hits!

Dwight Eisenhower

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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

-Mike Tyson

Who knew Iron Mike was so wise? A punch in the face could throw even the best man’s plans into disarray. But that’s when the planning, preparation, and refinement really comes to bear. The years invested in the right form produces the muscle memory that will help a man dig his way out of a dog fight.

Mike Tyson Quotes

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

-Warren Buffett

Don’t just think about how you want to enjoy this year. Think about what you want to invest in for years from now. Yes, finances and retirement. And what relationships and skills do you want to enjoy down the road that you’ve got to plant and water now?

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