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.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

2.

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

3.

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

Stein, Ben

4.

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

Mikita, Stan

5.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

6.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

7.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

8.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

9.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

10.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Edwards, Graeme

12.

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

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

17.

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

Howard, Vernon

18.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

19.

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

George S. Patton

20.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

21.

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

22.

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

Thomas Paine

23.

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

24.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

26.

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

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

29.

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

30.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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.

33.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

Knox, Chuck

35.

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

Milne, A. A.

36.

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

Osler, Sir William

37.

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

Morrisey, George L.

38.

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

Klemme, E. J.

39.

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

40.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

45.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

46.

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

Kennedy, John F.

47.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

48.

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.

49.

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

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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.