Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Howard, Vernon

2.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

3.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

4.

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

Klemme, E. J.

5.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

6.

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.

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.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Curtis, Donald

12.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

17.

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

18.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

19.

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

20.

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

Morrisey, George L.

21.

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

22.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

24.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Knox, Chuck

26.

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

Stein, Ben

27.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

34.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

35.

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

Homer

36.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

37.

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

38.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

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

41.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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