Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Homer

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Mikita, Stan

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Euripides

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One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.