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

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

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Judd, H. Stanley

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

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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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Mikita, Stan

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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 good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug