Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Planning

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 best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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

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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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Homer

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

Euripides

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

Argenti, John

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

Paul, Jean

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

George S. Patton

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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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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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