Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Argenti, John

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Thomas Paine

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Patton, George S.

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

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Howard, Vernon

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Euripides

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

Knox, Chuck

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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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

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald