Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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Best Quotes about Planning

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Paul, Jean

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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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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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

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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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

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Stein, Ben

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Patton, George S.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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