Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Morrisey, George L.

2.

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

Nelson, Paula

3.

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

Thomas A. Edison

4.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

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

Ziglar, Zig

6.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

7.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

8.

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

Gilbert, Steven

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

Argenti, John

15.

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

Thomas Paine

16.

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

Lakein, Alan

17.

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

Homer

18.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

23.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

24.

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

Osler, Sir William

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

33.

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

34.

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

Milne, A. A.

35.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

36.

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

Caine, Mark

37.

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

38.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

39.

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

Euripides

40.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

45.

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

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

Mikita, Stan

48.

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

Edwards, Graeme

49.

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

50.

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