Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Knox, Chuck

Best Quotes about Planning

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Paul, Jean

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Homer

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Euripides

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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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In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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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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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