Motivational Quotes

Planning

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

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

Confucius

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Euripides

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

Thomas Paine

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

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.