Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

2.

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

Nelson, Paula

3.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

10.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

12.

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

Edwards, Graeme

13.

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

14.

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

Mikita, Stan

15.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

16.

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

Stein, Ben

17.

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

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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.

23.

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

George S. Patton

24.

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

25.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

27.

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

28.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

30.

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

Homer

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

Coudert, Jo

33.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

34.

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

35.

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

Argenti, John

36.

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

37.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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

Patton, George S.

43.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel