Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

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

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Caine, Mark

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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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

Homer

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Gilbert, Steven

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Euripides

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.