Motivational Quotes

Planning

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

- Guicciardini, Francesco

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Confucius

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Homer

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Euripides

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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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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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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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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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 step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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