Motivational Quotes

Planning

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Confucius

2.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

3.

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

4.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

9.

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.

10.

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Gilbert, Steven

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

20.

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

21.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

22.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

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

Caine, Mark

28.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

35.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

36.

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

Kennedy, John F.

37.

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

38.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

Milne, A. A.

42.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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