Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

George S. Patton

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

5.

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

6.

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

Caine, Mark

7.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

8.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

9.

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

10.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

13.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

14.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Klemme, E. J.

22.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

24.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Trotsky, Leon

27.

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

28.

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

Paul, Jean

29.

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

30.

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

Patton, George S.

31.

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

Mikita, Stan

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

34.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

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

Stein, Ben

37.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

38.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

39.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

40.

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

Argenti, John

41.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Proverb, Japanese

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

47.

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

48.

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

49.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.