Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Patton, George S.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stein, Ben

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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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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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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