Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

3.

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

4.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

5.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

6.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

7.

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

Thomas A. Edison

8.

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

Howard, Vernon

9.

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

Argenti, John

10.

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

11.

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

Nelson, Paula

12.

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

Curtis, Donald

13.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

14.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

15.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

17.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

20.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Edwards, Graeme

24.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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.

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

Thomas Paine

27.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

28.

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

Lakein, Alan

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

31.

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

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Klemme, E. J.

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

37.

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

Stein, Ben

38.

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

Gilbert, Steven

39.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

40.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

41.

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

42.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

43.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

44.

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.

45.

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

Euripides

46.

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

47.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

48.

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