Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Nelson, Paula

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston