Motivational Quotes

Planning

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Trotsky, Leon

2.

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

Curtis, Donald

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Hugo, Victor

9.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

10.

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

Lakein, Alan

11.

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

Mikita, Stan

12.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

13.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

Klemme, E. J.

15.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

16.

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

Thomas A. Edison

17.

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

George S. Patton

22.

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

23.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.

Walsh, Basil S.

25.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

Knox, Chuck

28.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

29.

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

Thomas Paine

30.

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

Howard, Vernon

31.

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

Caine, Mark

34.

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

Gilbert, Steven

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Stein, Ben

38.

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

Milne, A. A.

39.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

41.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

43.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

44.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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.

46.

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

Argenti, John

47.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

49.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.