Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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

Knox, Chuck

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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 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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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.

Caine, Mark

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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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

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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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 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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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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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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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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

Mikita, Stan

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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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 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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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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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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.