Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Confucius

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

Hale, Edward Everett

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Caine, Mark

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Euripides

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.