Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Coudert, Jo

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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 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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Homer

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

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

George S. Patton

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Confucius

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Caine, Mark

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

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark