Motivational Quotes

Planning

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Argenti, John

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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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Thomas Paine

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Coudert, Jo

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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.