Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Curtis, Donald

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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

12.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Patton, George S.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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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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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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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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.