Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

4.

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

Gilbert, Steven

5.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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

Lakein, Alan

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

14.

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

15.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Osler, Sir William

18.

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

19.

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

Paul, Jean

20.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Edwards, Graeme

22.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

23.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Thomas A. Edison

25.

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

26.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Japanese

29.

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

George S. Patton

30.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

31.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

32.

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

Knox, Chuck

33.

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

34.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Milne, A. A.

40.

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

Stein, Ben

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Caine, Mark

44.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

45.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

46.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances