Motivational Quotes

Planning

To be prepared is half the victory.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Planning

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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.

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

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Nelson, Paula

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

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

Caine, Mark

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gilbert, Steven

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Coudert, Jo

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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