Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

6.

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

George S. Patton

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Paul, Jean

10.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Trotsky, Leon

15.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Klemme, E. J.

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.

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

Patton, George S.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

23.

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.

24.

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

Gilbert, Steven

25.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

27.

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

Thomas A. Edison

28.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

35.

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

36.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

37.

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

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Stein, Ben

40.

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

Argenti, John

41.

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

Thomas Paine

42.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

43.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

46.

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

Nightingale, Earl

47.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin