Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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Best Quotes about Planning

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Patton, George S.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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

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

Euripides

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

Hugo, Victor

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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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.

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

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler