Motivational Quotes

Planning

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Judd, H. Stanley

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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.

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

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Patton, George S.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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One step at a time is good walking.