Motivational Quotes

Planning

We always plan too much and always think too little.

- Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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.

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

Coudert, Jo

3.

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

Kennedy, John F.

4.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

5.

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.

6.

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

Proverb, Japanese

7.

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

8.

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

Hill, Napoleon

9.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

10.

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

Argenti, John

11.

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.

12.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

13.

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

Trotsky, Leon

14.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

15.

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

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Caine, Mark

18.

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

19.

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

Curtis, Donald

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

23.

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

Paul, Jean

24.

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

25.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

26.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

28.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Confucius

31.

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

32.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

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

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.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

36.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

37.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

38.

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

39.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

Thomas Paine

42.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

44.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

49.

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

50.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin