Motivational Quotes

Planning

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

- George S. Patton

Best Quotes about Planning

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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

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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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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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 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 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?

Cairncross, Alec

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

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Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

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

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

Osler, Sir William

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Patton, George S.

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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

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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Mikita, Stan