Motivational Quotes

Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Planning

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Argenti, John

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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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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In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

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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

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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