Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Klemme, E. J.

2.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

3.

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

Paul, Jean

4.

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

5.

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

Ziglar, Zig

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Thomas Paine

9.

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

10.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

11.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

12.

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.

13.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

14.

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

Thomas A. Edison

15.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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.

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

Euripides

19.

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

20.

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

Argenti, John

21.

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

22.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

23.

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

Howard, Vernon

24.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

25.

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

Stein, Ben

26.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

27.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Lakein, Alan

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

34.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

36.

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

37.

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

Edwards, Graeme

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

46.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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.

48.

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

Kennedy, John F.

49.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

50.

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