Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Thomas Paine

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

Proverb, Chinese

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Euripides

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Caine, Mark

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Argenti, John

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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.