Motivational Quotes

Planning

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Stein, Ben

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

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.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Knox, Chuck

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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

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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler