Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Cushing, Richard C.

Best Quotes about Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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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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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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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 your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Patton, George S.

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Paul, Jean

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

Confucius

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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