Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Proverb, Japanese

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

5.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

Lakein, Alan

7.

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

Nightingale, Earl

8.

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

Nelson, Paula

9.

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.

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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.

12.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

16.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Edwards, Graeme

22.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

23.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Homer

31.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

37.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

38.

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

Caine, Mark

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

43.

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

44.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian