Motivational Quotes

Planning

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

- Joseph Campbell

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Nelson, Paula

2.

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

Euripides

3.

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

Milne, A. A.

4.

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

5.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

6.

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

7.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

8.

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

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.

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

Proverb, Japanese

11.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

Stein, Ben

13.

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

14.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

15.

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

16.

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

Thomas A. Edison

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Mikita, Stan

21.

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.

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

24.

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

Homer

25.

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

Edwards, Graeme

26.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

27.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

28.

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.

29.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

30.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Patton, George S.

36.

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

37.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

38.

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

39.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

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

Curtis, Donald

42.

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

Klemme, E. J.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.