Motivational Quotes

Planning

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Nelson, Paula

3.

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

Homer

4.

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

5.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

6.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

7.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

10.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

12.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

13.

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

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

16.

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.

17.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

18.

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

19.

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

Caine, Mark

20.

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

Proverb, Japanese

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Gilbert, Steven

28.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

31.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

32.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Osler, Sir William

35.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

36.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

38.

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.

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.

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.

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

George S. Patton

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

45.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Euripides