Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Homer

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

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

Hugo, Victor

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

Coudert, Jo

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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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.

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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 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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Confucius

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Patton, George S.

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler