Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Planning

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Knox, Chuck

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Paul, Jean

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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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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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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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Caine, Mark

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Argenti, John

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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