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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

George S. Patton

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Stein, Ben

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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 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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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.