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.

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

Confucius

2.

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

Ziglar, Zig

3.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

4.

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

Nelson, Paula

5.

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

6.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

7.

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

8.

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

Nightingale, Earl

9.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

11.

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

Edwards, Graeme

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Trotsky, Leon

14.

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.

15.

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

George S. Patton

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

18.

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

19.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

20.

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

21.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Milne, A. A.

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Homer

27.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

28.

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

Coudert, Jo

29.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

31.

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

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

Howard, Vernon

34.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Paul, Jean

37.

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

38.

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

Mikita, Stan

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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.

41.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

43.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

44.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

45.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

49.

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

Osler, Sir William

50.

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