Motivational Quotes

Planning

To be prepared is half the victory.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Argenti, John

2.

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

3.

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

Patton, George S.

4.

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

5.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Thomas A. Edison

9.

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

Trotsky, Leon

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

12.

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

13.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

14.

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

Proverb, Japanese

15.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

16.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

17.

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.

18.

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

Osler, Sir William

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

21.

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

22.

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

Ziglar, Zig

23.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

24.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

Caine, Mark

26.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

27.

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

Lakein, Alan

28.

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

29.

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

Knox, Chuck

30.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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.

32.

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

Curtis, Donald

33.

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

Stein, Ben

34.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

36.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

37.

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

38.

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

Howard, Vernon

39.

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

40.

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

Milne, A. A.

41.

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

42.

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

George S. Patton

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

45.

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

Thomas Paine

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

50.

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

Nelson, Paula