Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Mikita, Stan

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

George S. Patton

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

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

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Patton, George S.

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Euripides

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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At all times it is better to have a method.