Quotations similar to PLANNING - GOALS, ACTION
Also see PLANNING AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A goal without an action plan is a daydream. - Nathaniel Brandon
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. - Proverb
Accomplish the great tasks by a series of small acts. - Tao Tai Ching
Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. - Proverb
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. - Alexander Graham Bell
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin
Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand. - Napoleon Hill
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. - Rene Descartes
Do all the right things today and one day you will have all the right things. - Joseph Cubby
Don’t get locked up into the ultimate goal. Just concentrate on the next step. - Robert Anthony
Either you run the day or the day runs you. - Jim Rohn
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this give you a 1,000 percent return on energy! - Brian Tracy
Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. - Lester Bittel
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. - Dennis Wholey
I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan. - Spike Lee
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. - Jim Rohn
If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's. - American Proverb
It is a bad plan that admits no modification. - Publius Syrus
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s a bad plan that is written in indelible ink. – Che Garman
Living your life without a plan is like watching television with someone else holding the remote control. - Peter Turla
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. - Daniel H. Burnham
Man's best friend is a really good plan! - Barry Gallagher
Map out your future, but do it in pencil. - Jon Bon Jovi
Most people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. - John Beckley
Most people spend more time planning their vacations than thinking about what they want to do with their lives. - Bob McDonald
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. - Jim Rohn
No matter how carefully you plan your goals, they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. - W. Clement Stone
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it up into small jobs. - Henry Ford
Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. - Robert Brault
One hour of planning saves three hours of execution. - Steve Chandler
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. - A. A. Milne
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Stephen A Brennan
Plan your work and work your plan. - Napolean Hill
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. - Alan Lakein
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker
Preparation gives birth to self-confidence. - Denise Harman
Proper preparation prevents poor performance. - Charlie Batch
Set clear and realistic deadlines and plot them on your wall chart or calendar, or in your diary. Nothing can galvanize you into action quite like a looming deadline. - David Lawrence Preston
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. - Tom Landry
Speaking from my personal experiences, setting goals, along with a detailed action plan, has actually changed my life from one cast in frustration to one of purpose. - Catherine Pulsifer
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. - Robert H Schuller
The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. - Unknown
The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise. - Peter Green
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain
The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have. - Nido Qubein
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. - Laurence Peter
There isn’t any job that can’t be handled if we are willing to break it down into little pieces. - Steve Chandler
Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning. - Donald Rumsfeld
To be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Well begun is half done. - Aristotle
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius
When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it. - Unknown
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan
Wishing consumes as much energy as planning. - Unknown
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. - Frank Lloyd Wright
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. - Zig Ziglar
