Motivational Quotes

Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

- Cornford, Frances

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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

George S. Patton

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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