Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Caine, Mark

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Confucius

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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