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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

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

Thomas Paine

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Homer

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Paul, Jean

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Proverb, Japanese

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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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

42.

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Argenti, John

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

Gilbert, Steven