Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Thomas Paine

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Nelson, Paula

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

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Euripides

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

Patton, George S.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Caine, Mark

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Homer

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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

Churchill, Winston

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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 plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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.

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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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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.