Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Knox, Chuck

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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

Howard, Vernon

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Lakein, Alan

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Churchill, Winston

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Curtis, Donald

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Morrisey, George L.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Euripides

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kennedy, John F.

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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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