Quotes About Planning

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

Vengeance has no foresight.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail." – Benjamin Franklin

Get there first with the most men.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

The formal operational thinker has the ability to consider many different solutions to a problem before acting. This greatly increases efficiency, because the individual can avoid potentially unsuccessful attempts at solving a problem. The formal operational person considers past experiences, present demands, and future consequences in attempting to maximize the success of his or her adaptation to the world.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

If they didn't sail soon, the invasion would have to be postponed, perhaps until the following year.

VILLENEUVE HOLDS A COUNCIL OF WAR

Whatever the committee decided, it would take time for the towers to be built.

it's tragic that up to 40 percent of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted—and that almost half of those result in induced abortions. By some measures, more than one quarter of all maternal deaths could be avoided if there were no unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.

He writes down what he most wants to do. Then he commits to doing it. It becomes a goal, then a project to plan, with actions to take. Then it becomes an adventure to live. The point is not to become a goal setter but to live an extraordinary life. Clear goals are the path to that kind of life.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

You plan, you prepare, and you'll do just fine.

Make a plan. Get moving. Get to work. Do something. Make a decision. If you don't, circumstances will decide for you. The enemy loves to tell you what to do.