Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph 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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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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