Motivational Quotes

Planning

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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.

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

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Klemme, E. J.

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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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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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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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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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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Curtis, Donald

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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