Motivational Quotes

Planning

With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

2.

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

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.

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

5.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

6.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

7.

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

Milne, A. A.

8.

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.

9.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

10.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

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

Klemme, E. J.

17.

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

Thomas A. Edison

18.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

21.

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.

22.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

23.

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

Homer

24.

With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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

Howard, Vernon

30.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

31.

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

32.

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

Paul, Jean

33.

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

34.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

35.

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

Caine, Mark

36.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

38.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Patton, George S.

43.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

44.

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

Lakein, Alan