Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

2.

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

Thomas A. Edison

3.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

4.

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

Lakein, Alan

5.

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

6.

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

Argenti, John

7.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

8.

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

Coudert, Jo

9.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Morrisey, George L.

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

15.

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

Trotsky, Leon

16.

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

Howard, Vernon

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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.

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

Paul, Jean

21.

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

22.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

26.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

30.

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.

31.

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

Proverb, Japanese

32.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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.

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

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.

38.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

39.

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

Thomas Paine

40.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

42.

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

Curtis, Donald

43.

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

44.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

48.

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

49.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

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

George S. Patton