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

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

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

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Stein, Ben

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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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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Cushing, Richard C.