Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Osler, Sir William

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

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

Nelson, Paula

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Griggs, Richard E.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Curtis, Donald

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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

Gilbert, Steven