Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- George S. Patton

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hill, Napoleon

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 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

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Osler, Sir William

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Caine, Mark

10.

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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Argenti, John

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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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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Gilbert, Steven

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

George S. Patton