Motivational Quotes

Planning

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

- Daniel H. Burnham

Best Quotes about Planning

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Knox, Chuck

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Patton, George S.

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George S. Patton

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger