Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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

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.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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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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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Stein, Ben

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Curtis, Donald

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe