Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stein, Ben

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Thomas Paine

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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Homer

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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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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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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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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Euripides

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Confucius

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin