Motivational Quotes

Planning

At all times it is better to have a method.

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

6.

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

Trotsky, Leon

7.

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

8.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

9.

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

Proverb, Japanese

10.

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

Mikita, Stan

11.

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

Patton, George S.

12.

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

Thomas Paine

13.

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

Euripides

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

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

Curtis, Donald

20.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

21.

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

Klemme, E. J.

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

George S. Patton

24.

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

25.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

29.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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.

31.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

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

33.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

34.

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

35.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

36.

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

Caine, Mark

37.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

38.

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

39.

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

Paul, Jean

40.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

42.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

43.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Coudert, Jo

45.

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

46.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

47.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Judd, H. Stanley