Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Milne, A. A.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

Stein, Ben

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Patton, George S.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Mikita, Stan

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Euripides

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

Caine, Mark

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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