Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Planning

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hale, Edward Everett

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Nelson, Paula

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Euripides

In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Homer

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Patton, George S.

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

Confucius

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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

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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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Lakein, Alan