Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Knox, Chuck

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.

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Euripides

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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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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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

Curtis, Donald

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

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger