Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

2.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

8.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

9.

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.

10.

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

Klemme, E. J.

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

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

Argenti, John

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Stein, Ben

15.

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

Euripides

16.

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

17.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

18.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Paul, Jean

22.

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

Lakein, Alan

23.

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

Confucius

24.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

36.

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

Morrisey, George L.

37.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

38.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

40.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

41.

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

Curtis, Donald

42.

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

Proverb, Japanese

43.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

44.

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

45.

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

46.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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