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

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

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

Lakein, Alan

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stein, Ben

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

George S. Patton

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

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Ziglar, Zig

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Caine, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Osler, Sir William

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, 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 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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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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

Griggs, Richard 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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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.