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

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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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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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

5.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Euripides

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

18.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

19.

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

Curtis, Donald

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

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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

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

27.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

29.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

30.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

31.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

41.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

48.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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.