Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- George S. Patton

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Churchill, Winston

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Homer

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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Euripides

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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

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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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