Motivational Quotes

Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

Euripides

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

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

Coudert, Jo

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Knox, Chuck

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Caine, Mark

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

Homer

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Argenti, John

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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

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

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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