Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

10.

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

Trotsky, Leon

11.

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

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Confucius

14.

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

Caine, Mark

16.

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

17.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

18.

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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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

21.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

22.

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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

28.

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

29.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Coudert, Jo

40.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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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

44.

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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.