Motivational Quotes

Planning

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hugo, Victor

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

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Trotsky, Leon

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George S. Patton

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

Homer

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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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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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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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

Stein, Ben

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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.

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Patton, George S.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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