Motivational Quotes

Planning

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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.

2.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

4.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

5.

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

6.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

7.

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

8.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

9.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Thomas Paine

12.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

Knox, Chuck

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Klemme, E. J.

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.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

22.

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

23.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Euripides

25.

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

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Howard, Vernon

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

36.

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