Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Howard, Vernon

2.

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

Curtis, Donald

3.

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

4.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

5.

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

Edwards, Graeme

6.

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

7.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

9.

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

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

12.

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

13.

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

14.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

15.

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

16.

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

Nelson, Paula

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Thomas Paine

20.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

21.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

22.

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

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

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.

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

26.

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

Osler, Sir William

27.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

30.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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.

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

Thomas A. Edison

33.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

34.

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

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

36.

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

37.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Knox, Chuck

41.

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

Coudert, Jo

42.

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

43.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

44.

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

Kennedy, John F.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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.

49.

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

Stein, Ben

50.

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.