Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Klemme, E. J.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

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

4.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

6.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

7.

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.

8.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

10.

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

Paul, Jean

11.

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

12.

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

13.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

14.

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

Gilbert, Steven

15.

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Thomas A. Edison

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

21.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

27.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

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.

29.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

30.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

31.

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

32.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

33.

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

34.

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

Mikita, Stan

35.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

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

37.

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

Nightingale, Earl

38.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

39.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

40.

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

41.

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

Edwards, Graeme

42.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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.

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.

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

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

Nelson, Paula

48.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.