Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

2.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

4.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

5.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

6.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

7.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

9.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

10.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

11.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

12.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

14.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

16.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

17.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

18.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

19.

With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

20.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

21.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

22.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

24.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

25.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

26.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

28.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

29.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

30.

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

Lakein, Alan

31.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

33.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

34.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

35.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

36.

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.

Walsh, Basil S.

37.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

38.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

39.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

40.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

41.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

42.

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

43.

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Harvey-Jones, John

44.

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

46.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

47.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

48.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

49.

In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

50.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De