Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

22.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

23.

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

24.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

25.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Thomas Paine

27.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

29.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

30.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

31.

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

Howard, Vernon

32.

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

33.

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

Coudert, Jo

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

36.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

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.

40.

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

Argenti, John

41.

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

42.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

43.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Klemme, E. J.

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Gilbert, Steven