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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Curtis, Donald

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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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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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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Euripides

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Patton, George S.

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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.