Motivational Quotes

Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Planning

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Knox, Chuck

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Caine, Mark

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Stein, Ben

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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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.

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Thomas A. Edison

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