Motivational Quotes

Planning

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

- Cushing, Richard C.

Best Quotes about Planning

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 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

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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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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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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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edwards, Graeme

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Caine, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

George S. Patton

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Euripides

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Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.