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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

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

Caine, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.