Motivational Quotes

Planning

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Howard, Vernon

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Argenti, John

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

George S. Patton

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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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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 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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Homer

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Paul, Jean

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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Caine, Mark

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Knox, Chuck