Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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

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

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Hugo, Victor

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nelson, Paula

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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

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

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Euripides

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Homer

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Argenti, 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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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

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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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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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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.

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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