Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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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.

2.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

3.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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 without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

8.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

9.

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

Confucius

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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

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

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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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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

17.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

18.

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.

19.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

Patton, George S.

27.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

28.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

29.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

30.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

31.

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

32.

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

Knox, Chuck

33.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

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

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

37.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

39.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

40.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Edwards, Graeme

42.

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

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

45.

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

Paul, Jean

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

48.

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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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.