Motivational Quotes

Planning

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Planning

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

Homer

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Caine, Mark

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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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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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Paul, Jean

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Patton, George S.

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One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Confucius

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thomas Paine

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

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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