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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Trotsky, Leon

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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.

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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Patton, George S.

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Homer

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

Stein, Ben

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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 is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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