Motivational Quotes

Planning

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Planning

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Hugo, Victor

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Churchill, Winston

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

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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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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 schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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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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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

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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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

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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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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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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.