Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Coudert, Jo

Best Quotes about Planning

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Homer

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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

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

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

Argenti, John

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

George S. Patton

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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

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

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Euripides

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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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