Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Edwards, Graeme

Best Quotes about Planning

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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 loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

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Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

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

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

Argenti, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Paul, Jean

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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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 is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mikita, Stan

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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

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

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