Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Howard, Vernon

Best Quotes about Planning

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Proverb, Japanese

3.

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

11.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

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

Patton, George S.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

18.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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.

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

Homer

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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

32.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

34.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

36.

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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

39.

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

40.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

41.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

42.

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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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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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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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

46.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

47.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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