Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

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.

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

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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.

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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

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Euripides

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

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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