Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Proverb, Japanese

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

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

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

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

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

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Caine, Mark

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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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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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph 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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Stein, Ben

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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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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston