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.

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

2.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

3.

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

Proverb, Japanese

4.

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

Paul, Jean

5.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

6.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Lakein, Alan

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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

18.

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

Stein, Ben

19.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

20.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

21.

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

22.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

24.

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

25.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

Confucius

27.

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

28.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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.

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

31.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

32.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

33.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

35.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

40.

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

41.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

Mikita, Stan

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.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Howard, Vernon

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Caine, Mark

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