Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Thomas Paine

Best Quotes about Planning

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

11.

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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

Paul, Jean

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

30.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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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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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Euripides

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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

Homer