Motivational Quotes

Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Confucius

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Argenti, John

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

Euripides

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Caine, Mark

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?

Ford, George A.

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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 loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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

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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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