Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

2.

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

Trotsky, Leon

3.

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

Hugo, Victor

4.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

8.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

9.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

10.

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

Morrisey, George L.

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

13.

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

Patton, George S.

14.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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

16.

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

Thomas Paine

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

19.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

20.

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

Thomas A. Edison

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

27.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

28.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

30.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

31.

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

32.

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

Stein, Ben

33.

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.

34.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

35.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

36.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Euripides

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

42.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

43.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

44.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

45.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

46.

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

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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

48.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

49.

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

50.

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

Paul, Jean