Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Gilbert, Steven

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.

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

Knox, Chuck

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

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

George S. Patton

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Caine, Mark

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Nelson, Paula

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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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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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.