Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Planning

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

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.

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

Thomas Paine

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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

George S. Patton

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

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Coudert, Jo

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.