Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Lakein, Alan

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

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

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Curtis, Donald

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Patton, George S.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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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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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

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Thomas Paine

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

Paul, Jean

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Stein, Ben

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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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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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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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