Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Curtis, Donald

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Proverb, Japanese

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.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Caine, Mark

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Howard, Vernon

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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

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

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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.

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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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

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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

Patton, George S.

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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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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

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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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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.

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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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