Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

2.

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

3.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

4.

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

Caine, Mark

5.

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

6.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

7.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

8.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

10.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Thomas A. Edison

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

21.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

22.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

23.

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

Trotsky, Leon

24.

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

George S. Patton

25.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

26.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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.

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

31.

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

Argenti, John

32.

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

33.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Knox, Chuck

38.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Howard, Vernon

40.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

42.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

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

44.

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

Paul, Jean

45.

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

Thomas Paine

46.

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

Stein, Ben

47.

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