Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Ziglar, Zig

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Confucius

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

Thomas Paine

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

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.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Patton, George S.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

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There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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.