Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Curtis, Donald

Best Quotes about Planning

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

George S. Patton

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Paul, Jean

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

Knox, Chuck

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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 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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Homer

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

Mikita, Stan

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.