Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Hugo, Victor

3.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

4.

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

Confucius

5.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Lakein, Alan

9.

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

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

Patton, George S.

11.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

12.

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

Stein, Ben

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Milne, A. A.

24.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

25.

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

Curtis, Donald

26.

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

Homer

27.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

28.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

29.

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.

30.

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

31.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

32.

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

33.

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

Osler, Sir William

34.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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

38.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

40.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Thomas A. Edison

42.

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

Klemme, E. J.

43.

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

44.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

45.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

46.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

47.

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.

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

Euripides

49.

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

Thomas Paine

50.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De