Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Gilbert, Steven

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Homer

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Stein, Ben

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Confucius

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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Curtis, Donald

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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

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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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 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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.