Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Planning

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Coudert, Jo

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Caine, Mark

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stein, Ben

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

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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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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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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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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 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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Milne, A. A.

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

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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term