Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Gilbert, Steven

Best Quotes about Planning

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

Homer

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

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

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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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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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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Patton, George S.

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