Motivational Quotes

Planning

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Caine, Mark

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.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Patton, George S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

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

George S. Patton

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Argenti, John

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The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

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

Morrisey, George L.

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

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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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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 is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomas Paine

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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