Motivational Quotes

Planning

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Nelson, Paula

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Euripides

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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Thomas Paine

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Caine, Mark

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese