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.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

Patton, George S.

3.

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

Confucius

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

7.

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

George S. Patton

8.

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

9.

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

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Paul, Jean

14.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

15.

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

16.

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

17.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

18.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

20.

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

21.

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

Edwards, Graeme

22.

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.

23.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

24.

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

25.

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

26.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

33.

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

34.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

35.

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

Homer

36.

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

Osler, Sir William

37.

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

38.

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

Coudert, Jo

39.

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

Lakein, Alan

40.

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.

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

43.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

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

Mikita, Stan

48.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

49.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.