Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hale, Edward Everett

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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.

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

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

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Caine, Mark

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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