Motivational Quotes

Planning

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

- Maris, Roger

Best Quotes about Planning

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Homer

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

George S. Patton

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Confucius

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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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

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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Euripides

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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.