Motivational Quotes

Planning

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

8.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

9.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

10.

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

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

18.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

19.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

20.

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

21.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

22.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

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

Mikita, Stan

24.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

25.

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

Klemme, E. J.

26.

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

27.

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

George S. Patton

28.

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.

29.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

30.

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

Howard, Vernon

31.

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

32.

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

Osler, Sir William

33.

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

34.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

Nightingale, Earl

37.

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

44.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

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

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.

Joseph Campbell

50.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.