Motivational Quotes

Planning

To be prepared is half the victory.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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.

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

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Trotsky, Leon

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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 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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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

Curtis, Donald

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With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Euripides

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Patton, George S.