Motivational Quotes

Planning

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

Thomas Paine

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

Stein, Ben

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

Hugo, Victor

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Confucius

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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

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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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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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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Euripides

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

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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