Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- George S. Patton

Best Quotes about Planning

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thomas Paine

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

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

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

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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

Homer

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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 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

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Euripides

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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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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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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

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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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