diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/lib/input.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/lib/input.ts
index 682ce0687e374..b7c87e1a98f86 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/lib/input.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/lib/input.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ export abstract class ScheduleTargetInput {
    * @param text Text to use as the input for the target
    */
   public static fromText(text: string): ScheduleTargetInput {
-    return new FieldAwareEventInput(text);
+    return new FieldAwareEventInput(text, false);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export abstract class ScheduleTargetInput {
    * @param obj object to use to convert to JSON to use as input for the target
    */
   public static fromObject(obj: any): ScheduleTargetInput {
-    return new FieldAwareEventInput(obj);
+    return new FieldAwareEventInput(obj, true);
   }
 
   protected constructor() {
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export abstract class ScheduleTargetInput {
 }
 
 class FieldAwareEventInput extends ScheduleTargetInput {
-  constructor(private readonly input: any) {
+  constructor(private readonly input: any, private readonly toJsonString: boolean) {
     super();
   }
 
@@ -57,10 +57,11 @@ class FieldAwareEventInput extends ScheduleTargetInput {
     }
 
     const stack = Stack.of(schedule);
-    return stack.toJsonString(Tokenization.resolve(this.input, {
+    const inputString = Tokenization.resolve(this.input, {
       scope: schedule,
       resolver: new Replacer(),
-    }));
+    });
+    return this.toJsonString ? stack.toJsonString(inputString) : inputString;
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/test/input.test.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/test/input.test.ts
index afb890b7957ec..281a8b1b688b0 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/test/input.test.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-scheduler-alpha/test/input.test.ts
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ describe('schedule target input', () => {
     Template.fromStack(stack).hasResource('AWS::Scheduler::Schedule', {
       Properties: {
         Target: {
-          Input: '"test"',
+          Input: 'test',
         },
       },
     });
@@ -52,13 +52,14 @@ describe('schedule target input', () => {
   test('create an input from text with a ref inside', () => {
     new Schedule(stack, 'MyScheduleDummy', {
       schedule: expr,
-      target: new SomeLambdaTarget(func, ScheduleTargetInput.fromText(stack.account)),
+      target: new SomeLambdaTarget(func, ScheduleTargetInput.fromText(`a-${stack.account}`)),
     });
+
     Template.fromStack(stack).hasResource('AWS::Scheduler::Schedule', {
       Properties: {
         Target: {
           Input: {
-            'Fn::Join': ['', ['"', { Ref: 'AWS::AccountId' }, '"']],
+            'Fn::Join': ['', ['a-', { Ref: 'AWS::AccountId' }]],
           },
         },
       },
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ describe('schedule target input', () => {
     Template.fromStack(stack).hasResource('AWS::Scheduler::Schedule', {
       Properties: {
         Target: {
-          Input: '"Test=<aws.scheduler.schedule-arn>"',
+          Input: 'Test=<aws.scheduler.schedule-arn>',
         },
       },
     });