Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Planning

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

PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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

Judd, H. Stanley

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Knox, Chuck

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Euripides

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Milne, A. A.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Trotsky, Leon

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Morrisey, George L.