Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

2.

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.

3.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

4.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

5.

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

Patton, George S.

6.

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

7.

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

Paul, Jean

8.

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

Argenti, John

9.

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

10.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

11.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Curtis, Donald

15.

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

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

Thomas Paine

17.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

19.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

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

Lakein, Alan

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

Howard, Vernon

23.

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

24.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

25.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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.

27.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

32.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

35.

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

36.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.

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

Osler, Sir William

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

42.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

43.

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

Mikita, Stan

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

46.

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

Stein, Ben

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

Knox, Chuck

49.

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