Motivational Quotes

Planning

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

3.

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

Milne, A. A.

4.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

5.

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

Howard, Vernon

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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.

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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

13.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

14.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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.

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

17.

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

Thomas Paine

18.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Japanese

23.

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

Klemme, E. J.

24.

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

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

26.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

29.

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

30.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

31.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

32.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

33.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Edwards, Graeme

35.

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

Morrisey, George L.

36.

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.

37.

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

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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

Gilbert, Steven

39.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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.

45.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

47.

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

Mikita, Stan

48.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese