Motivational Quotes

Planning

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Planning

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

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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

Nightingale, Earl

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hugo, Victor

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Homer

11.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

12.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

13.

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

Nightingale, Earl

14.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Patton, George S.

25.

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

26.

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

Knox, Chuck

27.

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

28.

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

29.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

30.

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

Coudert, Jo

31.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

32.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

33.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

34.

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

35.

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

Edwards, Graeme

36.

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

Thomas A. Edison

37.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

38.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

39.

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

Curtis, Donald

40.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

41.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

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

43.

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

Morrisey, George L.

44.

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

45.

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

Trotsky, Leon

46.

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.

47.

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

George S. Patton

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Japanese