Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

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.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Milne, A. A.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Howard, Vernon

10.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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 as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

19.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Knox, Chuck

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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 system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Homer

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Euripides

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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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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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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