Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

7.

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

Caine, Mark

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.

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

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

16.

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

Coudert, Jo

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Proverb, Japanese

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

26.

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

Mikita, Stan

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

31.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

33.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

35.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

36.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

37.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

38.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

39.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

42.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

43.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

44.

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

45.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

Thomas Paine

47.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.