Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

4.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

Kennedy, John F.

6.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

7.

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

Osler, Sir William

8.

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

9.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

10.

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

11.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

12.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

13.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

14.

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

Stein, Ben

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Trotsky, Leon

20.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

24.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

25.

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

Edwards, Graeme

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Homer

33.

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

Euripides

34.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

35.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

37.

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

Klemme, E. J.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

George S. Patton

44.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

45.

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.

46.

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

Mikita, Stan

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

49.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal