Motivational Quotes

Planning

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Thomas Paine

5.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

6.

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

George S. Patton

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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.

8.

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

Milne, A. A.

9.

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

Edwards, Graeme

10.

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

11.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

12.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

13.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

14.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

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

16.

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

Paul, Jean

17.

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

18.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

22.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

23.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Caine, Mark

27.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Mikita, Stan

30.

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

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.

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

Coudert, Jo

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.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Nightingale, Earl

39.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

40.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

41.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

Thomas A. Edison

43.

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.

44.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

45.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

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

Ziglar, Zig

47.

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