Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Cushing, Richard C.

Best Quotes about Planning

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Paul, Jean

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

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

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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

Curtis, Donald

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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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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

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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

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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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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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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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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett