Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Stein, Ben

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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.

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

Knox, Chuck

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Gilbert, Steven

11.

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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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 without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

23.

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 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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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 be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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