Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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

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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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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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Victor Hugo

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Patton, George S.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

George S. Patton

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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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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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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