Motivational Quotes

Planning

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Curtis, Donald

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Stein, Ben

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Mikita, Stan

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