Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Planning

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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 every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Euripides

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Edwards, Graeme

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At all times it is better to have a method.