Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Gilbert, Steven

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

4.

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

5.

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

Morrisey, George L.

6.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Japanese

12.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

13.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

14.

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

15.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

18.

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

19.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Howard, Vernon

21.

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.

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

Thomas Paine

24.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

26.

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

27.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

28.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

Caine, Mark

32.

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

33.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

42.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Mikita, Stan

46.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

47.

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

Nelson, Paula

48.

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

Edwards, Graeme

49.

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

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.