Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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

Knox, Chuck

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

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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Victor Hugo

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Homer

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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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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Japanese

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Coudert, Jo