Motivational Quotes

Planning

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Stein, Ben

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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 is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Mikita, Stan

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Proverb, Japanese

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