Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Argenti, John

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

2.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

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

Proverb, Japanese

4.

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.

5.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

6.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

10.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Coudert, Jo

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

20.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

21.

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

22.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

28.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

29.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

30.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Argenti, John

32.

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

Gilbert, Steven

33.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

34.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

35.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

36.

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

Stein, Ben

37.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

39.

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

Nelson, Paula

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.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

43.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

44.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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.

47.

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

Thomas Paine

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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