Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

2.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

3.

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

4.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Klemme, E. J.

9.

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

Nelson, Paula

10.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

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

18.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

20.

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

Homer

21.

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.

22.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

23.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Edwards, Graeme

25.

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

26.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

27.

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.

28.

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

Gilbert, Steven

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Paul, Jean

32.

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

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Milne, A. A.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Knox, Chuck

38.

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

Nightingale, Earl

39.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

40.

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

Stein, Ben

41.

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

42.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Howard, Vernon

45.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

47.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

48.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

50.

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