Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

3.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

4.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

5.

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

Argenti, John

6.

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

7.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

Proverb, Japanese

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

Milne, A. A.

13.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

20.

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

Klemme, E. J.

21.

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

Osler, Sir William

22.

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

Howard, Vernon

23.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

24.

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

25.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

30.

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

Nelson, Paula

31.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

36.

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

Confucius

37.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

38.

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

39.

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

Patton, George S.

40.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

42.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

43.

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

44.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

45.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

Caine, Mark

47.

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

Homer

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Morrisey, George L.