Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Howard, Vernon

3.

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

Stein, Ben

4.

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

Confucius

5.

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

Osler, Sir William

6.

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

Hugo, Victor

7.

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

8.

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

Patton, George S.

9.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

11.

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.

12.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

14.

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

15.

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

Knox, Chuck

16.

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

Caine, Mark

17.

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

18.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

19.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

21.

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

Nightingale, Earl

22.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

23.

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

Homer

24.

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

Lakein, Alan

25.

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

26.

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

Mikita, Stan

27.

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

28.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Paul, Jean

30.

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

Argenti, John

31.

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

32.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

34.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

35.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

36.

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.

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

40.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

41.

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

42.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Nelson, Paula

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Thomas A. Edison

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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