Motivational Quotes

Planning

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Planning

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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

Mikita, Stan

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

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Curtis, Donald

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Paul, Jean

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

19.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Argenti, John

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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Homer

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.