Motivational Quotes

Planning

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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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

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The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

7.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Stein, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Nelson, Paula

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Nightingale, Earl

30.

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Coudert, Jo

50.

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