Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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.

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Homer

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Lakein, Alan

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Curtis, Donald

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Klemme, E. J.