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.

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

Confucius

2.

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

3.

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

Ziglar, Zig

4.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

9.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Caine, Mark

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

16.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

17.

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

18.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

19.

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

20.

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

21.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

26.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

27.

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

Milne, A. A.

28.

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

29.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

30.

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

Argenti, John

31.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

32.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Curtis, Donald

35.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

36.

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

Osler, Sir William

37.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

39.

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

40.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

41.

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

Homer

42.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

43.

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

Mikita, Stan

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Trotsky, Leon

48.

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

George S. Patton

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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