Motivational Quotes

Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

George S. Patton

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Euripides

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

Thomas Paine

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

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Churchill, Winston

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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

26.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

31.

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

32.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Nelson, Paula

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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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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 every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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