Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Cushing, Richard C.

Best Quotes about Planning

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

Mikita, Stan

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

George S. Patton

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

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

Confucius

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gilbert, Steven

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?

Ford, George A.

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

Patton, George S.

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Knox, Chuck

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Curtis, Donald

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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