Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Planning

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

11.

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

12.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.