Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

2.

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.

3.

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

Howard, Vernon

4.

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

5.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

6.

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

7.

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

George S. Patton

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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.

10.

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

Caine, Mark

11.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

13.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

14.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

Nelson, Paula

17.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

18.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

20.

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

21.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

22.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

23.

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

24.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Edwards, Graeme

27.

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

Mikita, Stan

28.

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

29.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

30.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

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

Trotsky, Leon

38.

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

39.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

40.

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

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.

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

43.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

45.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

46.

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.

47.

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

Paul, Jean

48.

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

Klemme, E. J.

49.

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

Confucius

50.

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