Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

2.

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

3.

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

Nightingale, Earl

4.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

5.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

6.

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

Euripides

7.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

8.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

9.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

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.

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.

16.

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

Homer

17.

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

Confucius

18.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

19.

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

20.

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

21.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

22.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

23.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

28.

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.

29.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

30.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

31.

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

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

34.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

45.

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

Caine, Mark

46.

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

Trotsky, Leon

47.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim