Motivational Quotes

Planning

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Homer

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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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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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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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.