Motivational Quotes

Planning

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Planning

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

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

Euripides

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio