Motivational Quotes

Planning

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

- Klemme, E. J.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Homer

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

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mikita, Stan

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Paul, Jean

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan