684 Quotes About Planning

If your plans are failing, search your motives. If you're doing things for the wrong reasons, do not expect God to back you up.

The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!” Leaders don’t think that way!

People who do not set goals do not achieve them. They also achieve little else.

Today, with a cellphone, Internet connectivity and a name, you can know anything about anyone who ever did anything you are interested in.

My travels inevitably begin with copious research and planning. I began this kind of planning long ago when I was very young and anxious to hit the road. Hours were spent pouring over junior encyclopedias memorizing the names of exotic-sounding cities---Addis, Ababa, Samarkand, Damascus. Lengthy lists were written detailing the most minute necessities: three pairs of socks, two pencils. spare batteries, rope.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Without your active participation, it won't work. Take action!

Instead of talking about what you wish to do, start doing it. Take action towards your dreams.

One of the biggest obstacles to obtaining goals is not making a plan. If you really want to achieve something, write down a plan of attack right now.

When we are asked to act, we do so only if we feel at least minimally competent to do what is asked of us. We need to feel that our actions will ultimately be successful. Without some expectation of success, we are unlikely to act at all and will rather resign ourselves to letting fate take its course. We often redirect our thinking from our actual goals to the goal of preserving a sense of our competence. This act of self-protection is essential to maintaining a minimum capacity to act.