Motivational Quotes

Planning

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

- Cushing, Richard C.

Best Quotes about Planning

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Klemme, E. J.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Patton, George S.

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Proverb, Japanese

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

20.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Confucius

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.

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

Euripides

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

41.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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.

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas