Motivational Quotes

Planning

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Paul, Jean

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Argenti, John

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Churchill, Winston

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

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

Euripides

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?

Ford, George A.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug