Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

2.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

3.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

4.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

5.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

6.

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.

7.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

8.

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

Howard, Vernon

9.

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

10.

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

Caine, Mark

11.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

12.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

15.

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

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.

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

18.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

19.

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

Proverb, Japanese

20.

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

21.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

22.

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

Homer

23.

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

24.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

30.

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

31.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Gilbert, Steven

33.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

Mikita, Stan

35.

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

Knox, Chuck

36.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Thomas A. Edison

40.

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

Nightingale, Earl

41.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

42.

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

43.

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

44.

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

45.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

46.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

47.

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

Milne, A. A.

48.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

49.

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

50.

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.