Motivational Quotes

Planning

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Thomas Paine

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Gilbert, Steven

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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 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 plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John