Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Argenti, John

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Caine, Mark

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, John F.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

George S. Patton

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Homer

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Knox, Chuck