Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Homer

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Thomas Paine

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.

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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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 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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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

28.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Stein, Ben

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Euripides

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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.