Motivational Quotes

Planning

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

- Griggs, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Osler, Sir William

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

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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.

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

George S. Patton

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

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

Confucius

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Stein, Ben

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Knox, Chuck

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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

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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Patton, George S.

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

Nelson, Paula

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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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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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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon