Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

4.

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

Churchill, Winston

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

Gilbert, Steven

10.

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

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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

Morrisey, George L.

14.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Thomas A. Edison

16.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

17.

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

18.

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

Howard, Vernon

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

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

Klemme, E. J.

23.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Argenti, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Patton, George S.

32.

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

33.

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

Paul, Jean

34.

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

35.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

36.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

39.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

40.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

41.

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

Nightingale, Earl

42.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

43.

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

Euripides

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

48.

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

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.

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.