Motivational Quotes

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Nightingale, Earl

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

George S. Patton

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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 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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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Patton, George S.

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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Homer

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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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 important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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