Motivational Quotes

Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Homer

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nelson, Paula

10.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Euripides

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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

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

George S. Patton

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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 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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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