Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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 man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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One step at a time is good walking.