Motivational Quotes

Planning

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Planning

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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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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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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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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

5.

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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

7.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

9.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

10.

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

11.

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

Stein, Ben

12.

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.

13.

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

George S. Patton

14.

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

15.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

16.

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.

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

19.

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

20.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

21.

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

22.

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

Paul, Jean

23.

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

24.

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

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

27.

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

28.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

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

Thomas A. Edison

30.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

31.

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

32.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

37.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

38.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal