Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Stein, Ben

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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.

34.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John 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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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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

Knox, Chuck

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Caine, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?