Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Hale, Edward Everett

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

2.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

3.

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

4.

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

Confucius

5.

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

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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.

7.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

George S. Patton

13.

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

14.

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

Morrisey, George L.

15.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

Edwards, Graeme

22.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

23.

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

Stein, Ben

24.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

25.

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

26.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

28.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Japanese

34.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

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

Paul, Jean

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Nightingale, Earl

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

43.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

44.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

48.

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

50.

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