Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Patton, George S.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Always be planning something.