Motivational Quotes

Planning

At all times it is better to have a method.

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Planning

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Homer

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Knox, Chuck

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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

24.

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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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

26.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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

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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

43.

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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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco