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

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

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

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

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.

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

Caine, Mark

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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 trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

George S. Patton

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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

Klemme, E. J.

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 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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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.