Motivational Quotes

Planning

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Euripides

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?

Ford, George A.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Paul, Jean

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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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 loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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

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

Homer

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Caine, Mark

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Argenti, John

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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?