Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Patton, George S.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John 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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Klemme, E. J.

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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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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

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.

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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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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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Mikita, Stan