Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Argenti, John

2.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

3.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

4.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

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.

6.

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

Ziglar, Zig

7.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

8.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

10.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

11.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

12.

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

Thomas Paine

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

15.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

16.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

Osler, Sir William

18.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Thomas A. Edison

23.

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

24.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

25.

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

26.

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

Nightingale, Earl

27.

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

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Proverb, Japanese

30.

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

Klemme, E. J.

31.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

32.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

33.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

34.

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

Coudert, Jo

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

37.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

38.

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

Howard, Vernon

39.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

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

41.

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

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.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

46.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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.

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.

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

Morrisey, George L.

50.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese