Motivational Quotes

Planning

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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.

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

Knox, Chuck

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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

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

10.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hugo, Victor

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Homer

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

33.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

39.

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

Mikita, Stan

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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