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.

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

2.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

3.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

4.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

5.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

6.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

8.

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

9.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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

Thomas Paine

11.

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

12.

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

Coudert, Jo

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

Euripides

15.

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

16.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

17.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

18.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

21.

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

Morrisey, George L.

22.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

23.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

24.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

25.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

George S. Patton

27.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

28.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

30.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

31.

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

32.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

33.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

34.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

35.

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

36.

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

37.

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

Thomas A. Edison

38.

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

39.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

40.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl