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.

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

2.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

3.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

4.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

5.

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

Edwards, Graeme

6.

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

7.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

8.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

9.

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

10.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

11.

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

Patton, George S.

12.

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.

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

27.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

29.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

30.

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

Osler, Sir William

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Coudert, Jo

34.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

35.

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

Argenti, John

36.

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

Homer

37.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

39.

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

Howard, Vernon

40.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

43.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

44.

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

45.

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

Trotsky, Leon

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

50.

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

Cushing, Richard C.