Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Argenti, John

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

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

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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.

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Homer

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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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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