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

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

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

Euripides

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

Stein, Ben

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Paul, Jean

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

34.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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