Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Gilbert, Steven

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Patton, George S.

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Caine, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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