Motivational Quotes

Planning

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Mikita, Stan

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

George S. Patton

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

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

Klemme, E. J.

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.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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.

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

Confucius

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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 time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thomas Paine

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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

Hill, Napoleon