Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Confucius

2.

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

3.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

4.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

5.

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

Nelson, Paula

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.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

8.

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

9.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

14.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lakein, Alan

20.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

21.

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

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

25.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

26.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

27.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

32.

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

Klemme, E. J.

33.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

34.

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

Caine, Mark

35.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

36.

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

Kennedy, John F.

37.

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.

38.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

39.

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

Morrisey, George L.

40.

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

Nightingale, Earl

41.

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