Motivational Quotes

Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

- Cornford, Frances

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Euripides

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

Hugo, Victor

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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.

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

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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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.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Nelson, Paula

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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 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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Stein, Ben

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Homer

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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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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