Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Homer

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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Confucius

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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