Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Caine, Mark

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Howard, Vernon

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Homer

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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