Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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

Proverb, Japanese

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

George S. Patton

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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 good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Homer

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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 man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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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

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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

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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 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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.