Motivational Quotes

Planning

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

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

Hugo, Victor

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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 every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.