Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Edwards, Graeme

Best Quotes about Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

10.

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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Caine, Mark

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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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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

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Homer

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stein, Ben

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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

38.

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Gilbert, Steven

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

43.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Griggs, Richard E.

47.

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

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

Euripides

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

George S. Patton