Quotes about plans

Daniel Burnham -

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

John Lennon -

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Alison Sweeney -

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

Israelmore Ayivor -

Wishes and wants do not transform a person actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Don’t depend on the thoughts “I need more time”. There are only 24 hours in each day. You can’t make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit.

Marty Rubin -

Never have a plan it'll just get in your way.

Johnnie Dent Jr. -

It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen Since something is going to happen either way.

Shannon L. Alder -

You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation you simply need a plan.

Mark Twain - Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

It is easy to make plans in this world even a cat can do it and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same.

Alan Watts -

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Mario Cuomo -

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

Michael R. Phillips -

The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry His plans are never rushed.

Suzanne Eller - Come with Me: Discovering the Beauty of Following Where He Leads

Giving him our plans is giving him ourselves.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Planning is worrying based on facts

Lois McMaster Bujold - The Vor Game

The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.

Lance Conrad - The Price of Loyalty

Anyone can act strategically, it doesn’t take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail.

Shaun Hick - The Ghost And Its Shadow

You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

Cressida Cowell - How to Speak Dragonese

That is a terrible plan.""Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible.""Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

Abigail Biddinger -

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

Sunday Adelaja -

We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God’s plans.

Viet Thanh Nguyen - The Sympathizer

I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this how all plans developed, unknown to their maker until he wove for himself a parachute, or else melted into air?

Randa Manning-Johnson -

It's impossible to hit a target that you can't see. You must visualize your goal, set a plan and work your plan. Don't make excuses. .. Just make time.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.

Sunday Adelaja -

Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategise, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world

Sunday Adelaja -

Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world.

Angela Flournoy - The Turner House

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.

Jim Andrews -

... we live in a purposeful world with a linear movement to a grand climax. Thousands of sub-plots unfold enroute to the great finale. Behind your life is an unseen and up fathomed blueprint where every experience is purposeful. Within this divine plan we are not robots, but responsible moral agents. We make choices and we are responsible for these choices. But God, in a way that you and I will never fathom, integrates into his plan our choices long before they are ever made.

Shannon L. Alder -

Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right.

Oliver North - Counterfeit Lies

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Auliq Ice -

Set a goal when you’re ready for it, make a plan, and stick with it.

Elizabeth George Speare - Calico Captive

Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

Gabriella Jording -

The only thing that gets in the way of our plans and objectives is fate. It has its own path for you whether it's fair or unjust.

Joseph Campbell - A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on the old, we get stuck.When we hang onto any form,we are in danger of putrefaction.Hell is life drying up.

Lisa Kleypas - Mine Till Midnight

But I must warn you, Miss Hathaway ... life has a way of fouling up our plans. I speak from experience.

Pazaria Smith - Jesus Christ and the Cross

We are all recipients of God's full and perfect creation...everyone and everything in the universe are connected according to the Master's divine creative plan and purpose. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole creation. All thoughts, words, emotions, prayers, blessings, good deeds, evil deeds and actions are heard and experienced by the entire human creation...all mankind.

Eve M. Harrell - Confessions of a Helicopter Mom

When we learn to loosen our grip and leave our own beaten path, accepting his perfect plan, we give God the opportunity to be our navigator as he reveals the beauty of his creation.

Noelle Crawford - Pinnacle of Glory

All right, we need a way to get inot the palace. Any ideas?""Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones?

Lisa Brown Roberts - How (Not) to Fall in Love

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

Fritz Zwicky -

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become f

Craig D. Lounsbrough - Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

What are you waiting for? How long will you keep waiting? Don’t sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want.

Ryan Lilly - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.

Sunday Adelaja -

Before you rush ahead and start implementing God’s plans, you must have a coherent plan ofaction.

Israelmore Ayivor - Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be, what you have to do to be that person and how it will be done.

Eleanor Roat -

What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go.

Shelly Thacker -

Mayhap it was not wise to question God's plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future...

Lalita Tademy - Cane River

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

Anthony Liccione -

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

Max Barry - Lexicon

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

Napoleon Hill -

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey

The best plans are always the simplest.

Violet Haberdasher - The Secret Prince

Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Let your plans be assured from the end to the beginning. Let it be clear that the end is hopeful. Wake up.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Be prepared to say “no” to some things. That is the key. When you say “yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

When you have a lot of goals to accomplish, it is very important you do your own “Kaizin”. Shift those that are unnecessary now to the following day and carefully deal with a bigger task in smaller bits

Robert Burns - Collected Poems of Robert Burns

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

The state of convenience lies in the hands of proper planning. When you know this, you will become a good planner; and when you become a good planner, you save your life from stress!

Auliq Ice -

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

Auliq Ice -

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life.

A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

Emily Thorne -

They say the best laid plans often go a lie, Because no matter how detailed the preparation, A plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To do into the plan failure and the perpetrator along with it.

Elizabeth George -

Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans.

Brandon Nolta - Iron and Smoke

Plans change, Iktomi said. Got a plan that doesn’t require explosives.Are you confident in that? Mangas asked.I’m a god, Iktomi replied. I’m always confident.I’m a human, Mangas thought, and we know shit happens.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Man plan his course but the Maker define his path.

Edward Abbey - The Monkey Wrench Gang

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

Izey Victoria Odiase -

We should always have a plan B, but at the same time, treat plan A like it were our only option.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there.

Blake L. Higginbotham -

When you decide to be all you can be you will be better for it

José N. Harris - Hope and Love

Don't let your plans or goals become more important than yourself, or the ones you care about! :)

Bradley B. Dalina -

If you can't reach your dreams,If you can't achieve your goals,If you can't meet your plans,Least be happy each daySuccess is not an annual achievement,It's a daily achievement.

Jamie Valentin -

Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, and then get back to working/playing/competing/winning

Sunday Adelaja -

God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation

Auliq Ice -

The day you yearn greatly for in your life, will never come so easily as you think without great sacrifice.

Farshad Asl - and Clarity

Don’t wait for being completely ready for the plans and ideas you may have in mind. Take action now and along the way you will learn and become ready.

Saji Ijiyemi -

God has a plan for you but He does not plan for you

Joshua Stannard - How Good Can It Get

When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.

Mora Early - Twisted Arrangement

Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch.

Patrick Carman - The Dark Planet

Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.

Lao Tzu -

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

John Lasseter -

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

Shirley Corder - Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

When life is going according to plan, we don't stop to question our daily habits...Maybe it's time to sift through our lives.

Waheed Khan -

If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans...

Howard Tayler - The Blackness Between

We either need an overwhelming force advantage, or we need more information.""Reinforcements cut into our bounty, remember?""It's unanimous. We need more information.

Frederica Mathewes-Green -

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Raymond E. Feist - Talon of the Silver Hawk

Good,” said Creed. “I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random.

David Jeremiah - What Are You Afraid Of?

God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.

Surgeo Bell -

God always has a plan for you, before you even have a plan for yourself.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows.

Ava - This Is How You Know I Want You.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future,as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?

Andreas Harpas -

If your plan A didn't work then try plan B. If that didnt work either then try plan C and so on. What I want to say is that you must never change your goal. Failure is when you stop thinking of other plans to achieve your goal when the plan A didnt work out for you.

Shannon L. Alder -

If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.

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