Motivational Quotes

Planning

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Klemme, E. J.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

Osler, Sir William

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert 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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

10.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

18.

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.

19.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

21.

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

22.

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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

24.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Homer

32.

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

Caine, Mark

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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.

34.

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

35.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

39.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

41.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

42.

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

43.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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.

46.

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

47.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston