Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

2.

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

3.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

4.

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

Coudert, Jo

5.

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

6.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

7.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

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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

10.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

11.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

12.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

13.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

14.

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

Klemme, E. J.

15.

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

Thomas Paine

16.

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

Confucius

17.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

18.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

19.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

20.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

22.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Edwards, Graeme

24.

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

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

27.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

28.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

29.

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

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

31.

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

32.

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

Stein, Ben

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Osler, Sir William

37.

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

Knox, Chuck

38.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

39.

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

40.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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