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

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

Thomas Paine

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Kennedy, John F.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Howard, Vernon

In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

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

Coudert, Jo

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Knox, Chuck

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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