Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Klemme, E. J.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

4.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

5.

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

Argenti, John

6.

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

Klemme, E. J.

7.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

8.

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

George S. Patton

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

12.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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.

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

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

18.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

22.

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

Gilbert, Steven

23.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Howard, Vernon

30.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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

Morrisey, George L.

33.

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

34.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

Lakein, Alan

37.

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

Kennedy, John F.

38.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

39.

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

40.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

41.

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

42.

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

Mikita, Stan

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

Osler, Sir William

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

48.

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

49.

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

Caine, Mark

50.

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