Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Osler, Sir William

2.

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.

3.

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

Homer

4.

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.

5.

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

Thomas Paine

6.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

7.

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

Paul, Jean

8.

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

Gilbert, Steven

9.

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

Knox, Chuck

11.

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

12.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

13.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

14.

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

15.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

17.

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

Argenti, John

18.

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

Trotsky, Leon

19.

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.

20.

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

Edwards, Graeme

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Mikita, Stan

24.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

30.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

34.

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

35.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Curtis, Donald

37.

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

Morrisey, George L.

38.

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

Coudert, Jo

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.

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

Nelson, Paula

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

43.

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

Thomas A. Edison

44.

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

Caine, Mark

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.