Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Planning

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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.

2.

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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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

4.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

5.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

6.

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

Kennedy, John F.

7.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

9.

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.

10.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

11.

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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

14.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

15.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

17.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

18.

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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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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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

21.

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

Lakein, Alan

22.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

23.

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.

24.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

26.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

28.

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

Milne, A. A.

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Japanese

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

36.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.

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

George S. Patton

38.

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

39.

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

40.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

41.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

42.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

44.

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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

46.

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

47.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

48.

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

Mikita, Stan

49.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

50.

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.