Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Edwards, Graeme

3.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

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

Howard, Vernon

7.

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

Nelson, Paula

8.

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

Curtis, Donald

9.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

10.

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

Gilbert, Steven

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

13.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

14.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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.

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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.

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

Trotsky, Leon

23.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

24.

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

25.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

26.

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

27.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

29.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

30.

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

Stein, Ben

31.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

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

33.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

34.

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

Patton, George S.

35.

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

36.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

37.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

George S. Patton

46.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

47.

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

Proverb, Japanese

48.

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