Motivational Quotes

Planning

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

- Hale, Edward Everett

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Osler, Sir William

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

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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

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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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

George S. Patton

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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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 today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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

Stein, Ben

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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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

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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