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

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

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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Knox, Chuck

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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

10.

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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Paul, Jean

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

Patton, George S.

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

20.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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

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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

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

41.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

Lakein, Alan