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.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

5.

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

Nightingale, Earl

6.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

7.

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

Proverb, Japanese

8.

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

Coudert, Jo

9.

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

10.

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

Curtis, Donald

11.

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

12.

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

Mikita, Stan

13.

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

14.

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

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

16.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

17.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

Knox, Chuck

24.

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

25.

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

Gilbert, Steven

26.

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

27.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

28.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Morrisey, George L.

34.

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

Thomas Paine

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.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

37.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

38.

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

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig