Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Cushing, Richard C.

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

10.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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

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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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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

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

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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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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Klemme, E. J.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Caine, Mark

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

Patton, George S.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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.