Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Mikita, Stan

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Nelson, Paula

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Caine, Mark

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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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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 today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.