Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Curtis, Donald

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Confucius

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stein, Ben

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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

10.

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

11.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

12.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

13.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

14.

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

Trotsky, Leon

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Curtis, Donald

19.

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

Mikita, Stan

20.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

21.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

28.

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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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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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

31.

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

Knox, Chuck

32.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

33.

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

George S. Patton

35.

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

Morrisey, George L.

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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.