Motivational Quotes

Planning

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

- Hale, Edward Everett

Best Quotes about Planning

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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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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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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Homer

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

Euripides

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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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 plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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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