Motivational Quotes

Planning

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Homer

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Patton, George S.

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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.

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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.