Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Euripides

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Milne, A. A.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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.