Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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

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

Euripides

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

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Confucius

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Stein, Ben

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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

17.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

18.

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

20.

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

21.

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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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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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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The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

25.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Churchill, Winston

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

41.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Paul, Jean

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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