Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Argenti, John

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Stein, Ben

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.

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.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Confucius

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John 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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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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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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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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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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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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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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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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