Motivational Quotes

Planning

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

- Guicciardini, Francesco

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

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

Mikita, Stan

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stein, Ben

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Argenti, John

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Euripides

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.