Motivational Quotes

Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

- Cornford, Frances

Best Quotes about Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Euripides

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

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

Klemme, E. J.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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

Argenti, John

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

George S. Patton

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