Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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

3.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

4.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

5.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

6.

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

7.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

8.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

9.

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

10.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

Thomas Paine

12.

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

13.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

14.

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.

15.

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

Paul, Jean

16.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

17.

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

Patton, George S.

18.

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

Morrisey, George L.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

22.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

23.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

27.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

29.

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

George S. Patton

30.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Caine, Mark

32.

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

33.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

34.

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

Thomas A. Edison

35.

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

Milne, A. A.

36.

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.

37.

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

Proverb, Japanese

38.

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

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

41.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

44.

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

Howard, Vernon

46.

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

Mikita, Stan

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

50.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus