Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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.

2.

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

Euripides

3.

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

4.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

5.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

6.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

7.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

8.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

9.

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

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Klemme, E. J.

13.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

14.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Thomas Paine

18.

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.

19.

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

Homer

20.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

21.

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

Thomas A. Edison

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

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

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

Trotsky, Leon

26.

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

27.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

31.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

32.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

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

Coudert, Jo

34.

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.

35.

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

Osler, Sir William

36.

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

37.

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

Stein, Ben

38.

It takes time to save time.