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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Patton, George S.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Confucius

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

Thomas Paine

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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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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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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

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Homer

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

Euripides

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Caine, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston