Motivational Quotes

Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Planning

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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

Knox, Chuck

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cushing, Richard C.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

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

George S. Patton

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

Proverb, Japanese

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Mikita, Stan

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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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.