Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Thomas Paine

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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.

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

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Euripides

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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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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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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

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

Nelson, Paula

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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

Caine, Mark

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coudert, Jo

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Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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