Motivational Quotes

Planning

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

George S. Patton

3.

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

4.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

5.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

6.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

7.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

8.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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

Thomas A. Edison

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Howard, Vernon

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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

Milne, A. A.

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

18.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

19.

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

Argenti, John

20.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

21.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

26.

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

27.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

28.

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

Osler, Sir William

29.

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.

30.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

35.

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

Lakein, Alan

36.

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

Gilbert, Steven

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Japanese

39.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

40.

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.

41.

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

Homer

42.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

43.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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