Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

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

3.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

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

5.

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

Nightingale, Earl

6.

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

Gilbert, Steven

7.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

8.

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Euripides

12.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

13.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

14.

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

15.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

16.

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

17.

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

Trotsky, Leon

18.

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

Thomas A. Edison

19.

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

Mikita, Stan

20.

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

21.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

22.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

23.

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.

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.

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

26.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

27.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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.

30.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Morrisey, George L.

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

39.

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Stein, Ben

43.

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

44.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Nightingale, Earl

50.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.