Motivational Quotes

Planning

It takes time to save time.

- Taylor, Joe

Best Quotes about Planning

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

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Euripides

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.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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.

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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 loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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

Homer

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Trotsky, Leon

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