Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Confucius

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

George S. Patton

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

Mikita, Stan

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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

12.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

30.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Euripides

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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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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

45.

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