Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Hugo, Victor

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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

Stein, Ben

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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.

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

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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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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.

19.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Paul, Jean

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Mikita, Stan

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Patton, George S.

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell