Motivational Quotes

Planning

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

- Maris, Roger

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Argenti, John

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

Thomas Paine

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Paul, Jean

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

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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.

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

Knox, Chuck

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

George S. Patton