Motivational Quotes

Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Planning

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Confucius

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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

33.

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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stein, Ben

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