Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

6.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

7.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

12.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

13.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

Edwards, Graeme

16.

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

17.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

18.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

Osler, Sir William

23.

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

Morrisey, George L.

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Patton, George S.

27.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

28.

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

Thomas Paine

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

Klemme, E. J.

31.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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.

33.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

34.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Trotsky, Leon

36.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

41.

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.

42.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

43.

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

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.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Stein, Ben

48.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

49.

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.

50.

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