Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

2.

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

Lakein, Alan

3.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

10.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

11.

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

12.

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

Nightingale, Earl

13.

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

14.

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

Confucius

15.

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

16.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

17.

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

18.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

19.

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

Proverb, Japanese

20.

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

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

24.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

25.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

27.

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

Stein, Ben

28.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Thomas Paine

30.

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

Homer

31.

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

32.

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

Caine, Mark

33.

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

34.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

35.

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

36.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

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

George S. Patton

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.

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

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

46.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

47.

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

48.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

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

Patton, George S.