Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Caine, Mark

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

Homer

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.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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 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

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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

Mikita, Stan

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

George S. Patton

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Paul, Jean

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

Stein, Ben

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

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

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe