Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Hale, Edward Everett

Best Quotes about Planning

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

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Thomas Paine

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Gilbert, Steven

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stein, Ben

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Curtis, Donald

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Griggs, Richard E.