Motivational Quotes

Planning

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Coudert, Jo

2.

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

Nightingale, Earl

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

8.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

9.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

George S. Patton

13.

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

Gilbert, Steven

14.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

17.

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

18.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

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

24.

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

Caine, Mark

25.

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

26.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

27.

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

Mikita, Stan

28.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

30.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

31.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

33.

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

Trotsky, Leon

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

39.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

40.

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

41.

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

Milne, A. A.

42.

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

43.

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

Curtis, Donald

44.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

45.

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

46.

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

Confucius

47.

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

Stein, Ben

48.

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

49.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

50.

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.