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

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

Homer

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

Euripides

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Knox, Chuck

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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

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

George S. Patton

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stein, Ben

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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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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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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.