Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Curtis, Donald

Best Quotes about Planning

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

George S. Patton

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Euripides

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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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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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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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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

Knox, Chuck

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven