Motivational Quotes

Planning

Long-range planning works best in the short term

- Evelyn, Doug

Best Quotes about 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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

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

Euripides

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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Homer

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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 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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Klemme, E. J.

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

George S. Patton

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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