Motivational Quotes

Planning

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Nightingale, Earl

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

5.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

6.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

7.

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

8.

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

Morrisey, George L.

9.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Milne, A. A.

14.

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

Patton, George S.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

19.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

24.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Stein, Ben

28.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

29.

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

Nightingale, Earl

30.

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

31.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

32.

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

Gilbert, Steven

33.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

35.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

36.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

37.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

38.

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

Osler, Sir William

39.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

40.

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

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

42.

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

Hugo, Victor

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 planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon