Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Hugo, Victor

2.

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

3.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

4.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

6.

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

Ziglar, Zig

7.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

8.

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

9.

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

11.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

17.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Coudert, Jo

19.

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

Thomas A. Edison

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Caine, Mark

22.

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

23.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

24.

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

Stein, Ben

25.

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.

26.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

27.

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

Klemme, E. J.

28.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

29.

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

Homer

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Nightingale, Earl

33.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

35.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

36.

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

Trotsky, Leon

37.

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

Nelson, Paula

38.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

Lakein, Alan

42.

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

43.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Morrisey, George L.

45.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

46.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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