Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Stein, Ben

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Churchill, Winston

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Milne, A. A.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

George S. Patton

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Patton, George S.

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

Euripides

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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.