Motivational Quotes

Planning

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

- Thomas Paine

Best Quotes about Planning

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Curtis, Donald

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Knox, Chuck

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

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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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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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Nelson, Paula

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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

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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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio