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

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

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

Confucius

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

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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.

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

Milne, A. A.

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.

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 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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Stein, Ben

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There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Paul, Jean

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With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

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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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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.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Morrisey, George L.

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

Homer