Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Lakein, Alan

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Knox, Chuck

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Trotsky, Leon