Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Stein, Ben

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

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

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.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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

Curtis, Donald

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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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 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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Homer

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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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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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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.

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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