Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Thomas Paine

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

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

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

Gilbert, Steven

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Euripides

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Milne, A. A.

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

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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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