Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Trotsky, Leon

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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

Knox, Chuck

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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

11.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

14.

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

Thomas Paine

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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.

23.

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

Homer

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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.

31.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

32.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

Gilbert, Steven

34.

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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

36.

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

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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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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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

44.

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

45.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 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 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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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.