Motivational Quotes

Planning

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

- Maris, Roger

Best Quotes about Planning

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

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.

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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Patton, George S.

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

Curtis, Donald

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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

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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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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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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Thomas Paine

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Confucius

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

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

Stein, Ben

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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.