Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

2.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

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

4.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

5.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

11.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Confucius

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

20.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

21.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

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

Nelson, Paula

23.

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

Osler, Sir William

24.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

25.

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.

26.

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

Patton, George S.

27.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Trotsky, Leon

31.

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

32.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

37.

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

Argenti, John

38.

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

39.

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

Mikita, Stan

40.

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

Paul, Jean

41.

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

Milne, A. A.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

48.

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

49.

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

Thomas A. Edison

50.

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

Howard, Vernon

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