Motivational Quotes

Planning

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Hugo, Victor

2.

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

Paul, Jean

3.

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

4.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

8.

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

9.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

George S. Patton

15.

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

16.

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

Osler, Sir William

17.

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

Proverb, Japanese

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

22.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

23.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Caine, Mark

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

31.

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.

32.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

36.

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

37.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

38.

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

Curtis, Donald

39.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

40.

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