Motivational Quotes

Planning

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

- Bayol, Ben

Best Quotes about Planning

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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.

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

Paul, Jean

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

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.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.