Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Euripides

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Knox, Chuck

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Coudert, Jo

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Patton, George S.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Mikita, Stan

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Curtis, Donald