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.

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.

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

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

6.

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

Klemme, E. J.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

11.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

12.

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

13.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

18.

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

Curtis, Donald

19.

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

Euripides

20.

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

21.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

22.

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

Mikita, Stan

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Thomas Paine

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

28.

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

29.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

31.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

32.

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

Paul, Jean

33.

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

Gilbert, Steven

34.

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

35.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

39.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

40.

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