Motivational Quotes

Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Mikita, Stan

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Howard, Vernon

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Patton, George S.

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With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Euripides

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Thomas Paine

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon