Motivational Quotes

Planning

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Confucius

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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.

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

Patton, George S.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Knox, Chuck

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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.

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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

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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

Homer

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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