Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Mikita, Stan

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.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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

Homer

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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

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

Argenti, John

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Paul, Jean

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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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.