Motivational Quotes

Planning

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Best Quotes about Planning

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

Paul, Jean

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.

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert 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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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin