Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Knox, Chuck

2.

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

3.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

4.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

5.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

6.

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

Stein, Ben

7.

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

8.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

9.

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

Gilbert, Steven

10.

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.

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

Osler, Sir William

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

18.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

19.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

20.

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

Nightingale, Earl

21.

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

22.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

24.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

25.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

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

Thomas Paine

27.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

28.

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

Morrisey, George L.

29.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Proverb, Japanese

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

34.

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

35.

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

Paul, Jean

36.

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

37.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

38.

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

39.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

40.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

42.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.