Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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.

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

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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De