Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

3.

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

Edwards, Graeme

4.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

5.

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

Ziglar, Zig

6.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

7.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

8.

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

Confucius

9.

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.

10.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Milne, A. A.

14.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

15.

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

16.

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

Mikita, Stan

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

23.

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

24.

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

Gilbert, Steven

25.

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

26.

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

Curtis, Donald

27.

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.

28.

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

Homer

29.

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

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

32.

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

Howard, Vernon

33.

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

34.

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

Lakein, Alan

35.

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

36.

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

37.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

39.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

40.

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

Trotsky, Leon

41.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

42.

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

Nightingale, Earl

43.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

45.

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

Osler, Sir William

46.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

47.

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

Thomas Paine

48.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

49.

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

50.

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