Motivational Quotes

Planning

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Coudert, Jo

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, Japanese

7.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

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

Kennedy, John F.

9.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

10.

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

11.

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

Confucius

12.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

13.

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

Patton, George S.

14.

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

15.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Thomas Paine

17.

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

Stein, Ben

18.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Osler, Sir William

21.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Klemme, E. J.

23.

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

24.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

25.

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

26.

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

Lakein, Alan

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

30.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

31.

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

Howard, Vernon

32.

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

33.

With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

34.

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

35.

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

Trotsky, Leon

36.

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

Nightingale, Earl

37.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

38.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

39.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

41.

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

42.

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

Curtis, Donald

43.

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

44.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

47.

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