Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Knox, Chuck

2.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

3.

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

4.

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

5.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

6.

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

7.

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

Nightingale, Earl

8.

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

9.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

10.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

11.

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

Edwards, Graeme

12.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

13.

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.

14.

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

Homer

15.

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

Milne, A. A.

16.

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

17.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

20.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

21.

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

22.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

23.

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

24.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

25.

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

Coudert, Jo

26.

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

27.

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

Mikita, Stan

28.

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

Curtis, Donald

29.

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

Thomas A. Edison

30.

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

31.

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

George S. Patton

32.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

33.

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

34.

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

Euripides

35.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

36.

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.

37.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

38.

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

39.

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

Lakein, Alan

40.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Klemme, E. J.

45.

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

Gilbert, Steven

46.

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

Osler, Sir William

47.

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