Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Lakein, Alan

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Knox, Chuck

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Thomas Paine

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Churchill, Winston

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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Euripides

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

Patton, George S.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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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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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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio