Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about 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

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Mikita, Stan

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Homer

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The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Argenti, John

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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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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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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 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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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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