Motivational Quotes

Planning

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

4.

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

Homer

5.

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

6.

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

Trotsky, Leon

7.

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

George S. Patton

8.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

9.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

15.

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

Curtis, Donald

16.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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

Mikita, Stan

19.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

20.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

24.

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

Proverb, Japanese

25.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

26.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

27.

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

Caine, Mark

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Milne, A. A.

31.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

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

Argenti, John

35.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

36.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

38.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

39.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

40.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

46.

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