Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

2.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

3.

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

4.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

5.

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

6.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

7.

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

8.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

9.

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

Klemme, E. J.

10.

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

11.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

12.

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

Patton, George S.

13.

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

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.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

19.

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

20.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

23.

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

Mikita, Stan

24.

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

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

Osler, Sir William

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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.

28.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

29.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

30.

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

Caine, Mark

31.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

32.

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

33.

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

Confucius

34.

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

35.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

36.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

38.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

39.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

40.

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

Trotsky, Leon

41.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

42.

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

Nightingale, Earl

43.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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

Lakein, Alan

45.

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

46.

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

Thomas Paine

47.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

48.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

49.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.