Motivational Quotes

Planning

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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

Paul, Jean

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Confucius

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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Euripides

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

George S. Patton

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Coudert, Jo

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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