Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Mikita, Stan

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Nightingale, Earl

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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

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

Homer

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

Euripides

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Always be planning something.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Caine, Mark

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Paul, Jean

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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.