Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Euripides

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Stein, Ben

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

Homer

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Confucius

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Caine, Mark

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Paul, Jean

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough