Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Thomas Paine

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mikita, Stan

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Euripides

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Homer

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