Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Kennedy, John F.

2.

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

Knox, Chuck

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

6.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

7.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

8.

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

Stein, Ben

9.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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.

16.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

17.

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

Mikita, Stan

18.

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

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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

George S. Patton

21.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

23.

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

24.

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

Patton, George S.

25.

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

26.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

27.

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

Klemme, E. J.

28.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Nelson, Paula

33.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

40.

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

Edwards, Graeme

41.

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

42.

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

Curtis, Donald

43.

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

44.

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

Osler, Sir William

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

Coudert, Jo

48.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

49.

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

50.

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