Motivational Quotes

Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Confucius

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Euripides

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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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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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Caine, Mark

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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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