Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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 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

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

George S. Patton

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Howard, Vernon

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Morrisey, George L.

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

Caine, Mark

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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

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

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

Homer

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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Stein, Ben

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

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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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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula