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.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

2.

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

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Confucius

4.

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.

5.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

6.

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

Stein, Ben

7.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

8.

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

9.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

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

Paul, Jean

11.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

14.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

16.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

17.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

24.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

25.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

26.

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

27.

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

Argenti, John

28.

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

29.

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

Mikita, Stan

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Trotsky, Leon

36.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Curtis, Donald

40.

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

41.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

42.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Knox, Chuck

44.

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

45.

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

Lakein, Alan

46.

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

Nightingale, Earl

47.

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

George S. Patton

48.

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.