Motivational Quotes

Planning

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

- Landry, Tom

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

2.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

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

4.

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

Thomas Paine

5.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

6.

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

Caine, Mark

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Mikita, Stan

10.

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

Trotsky, Leon

11.

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

12.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

13.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

20.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

22.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

23.

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

Edwards, Graeme

24.

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

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

28.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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.

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

32.

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

Curtis, Donald

33.

Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?

Ford, George A.

34.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Gilbert, Steven

40.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

41.

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

Klemme, E. J.

42.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

43.

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Harvey-Jones, John

44.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

45.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

46.

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

George S. Patton

47.

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.

48.

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

Stein, Ben

49.

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

Milne, A. A.

50.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese