Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Euripides

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

Stein, Ben

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

Gilbert, Steven

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Caine, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Homer

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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.