Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Confucius

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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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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