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.

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

Caine, Mark

2.

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

Hill, Napoleon

3.

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

4.

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

5.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

6.

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

7.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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.

10.

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

Paul, Jean

11.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

13.

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

Thomas A. Edison

14.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

15.

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

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

22.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

23.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

Klemme, E. J.

26.

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

George S. Patton

27.

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

28.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

29.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

30.

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

Mikita, Stan

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

36.

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

37.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

38.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

39.

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

Milne, A. A.

40.

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

41.

Long-range planning works best in the short term