Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Knox, Chuck

Best Quotes about Planning

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Homer

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

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

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

33.

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

Knox, Chuck

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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

35.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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.

40.

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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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

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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

43.

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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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Ziglar, Zig