Motivational Quotes

Planning

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about 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

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

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.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

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

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Euripides

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

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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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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