Motivational Quotes

Planning

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

2.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

3.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

4.

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

5.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

6.

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

7.

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

George S. Patton

8.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

9.

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

Stein, Ben

10.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

13.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

15.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

16.

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

17.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

18.

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

19.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

24.

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

25.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

27.

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

28.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

Edwards, Graeme

30.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

31.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?

Ford, George A.

35.

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

Patton, George S.

36.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

37.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

38.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

39.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

40.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

44.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

45.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

46.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

47.

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

48.

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