Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

George S. Patton

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Coudert, Jo

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

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

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

Homer

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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At all times it is better to have a method.

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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomas Paine

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mikita, Stan

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lakein, Alan

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In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.