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

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Caine, Mark

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Paul, Jean

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Nelson, Paula

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Patton, George S.

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

George S. Patton

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

Confucius

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.