Motivational Quotes

Planning

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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Best Quotes about Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lakein, Alan

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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

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

Euripides

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.