Motivational Quotes

Planning

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Confucius

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

28.

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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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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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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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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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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 my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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

Nelson, Paula

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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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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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 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