Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Planning

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

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

Homer

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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Thomas Paine

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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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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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In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett