Motivational Quotes

Planning

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

- Maris, Roger

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Hugo, Victor

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Homer

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

Churchill, Winston

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Knox, Chuck

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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