Motivational Quotes

Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Trotsky, Leon

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Stein, Ben

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Thomas Paine

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

Euripides

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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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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

George S. Patton

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Paul, Jean

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Homer

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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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