Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Euripides

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

Thomas Paine

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.

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

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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Stein, Ben

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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 wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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 is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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.