These plan quotes will inspire you. Plan, to arrange the parts of or a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging plan quotes, plan sayings, and plan proverbs.
Best Plan Quotes
- “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ~ Anatole France
- “You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.” ~ Harry S. Truman
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“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.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” ~ George S. Patton
- “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ~ Howard Ruff
- “God’s plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.” ~ Louie Giglio , Life plan quotes
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“A plan without action is not a plan. It’s a speech.” ~ T. Boone Pickens
- “If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father’s plan would be frustrated.” ~ David A. Bednar
- “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ~ Earl Nightingale
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“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon
- “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.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” ~ Daniel Burnham
- “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.” ~ Alexis Carrel
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Laozi
- “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” ~ Tom Landry
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“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” ~ Robert Burns
- “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.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Before beginning, plan carefully.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Planning is bringing the future into the present.” ~ Mike Vance
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“Life is what happens to you while you’re planning on doing something else.” ~ John Lennon
- “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.” ~ Peter Drucker
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“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
- “We always plan too much and always think too little.” ~ Joseph A. Schumpeter
- “A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.” ~ Confucius
- “Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “You can never plan the future by the past.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “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.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Plan ahead: It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ~ Richard Cushing
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“Plans are useless, but planning is essential.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “No”, Tori said, ” I kidnapped her and forced her to escape with me. I’ve been using her as a human shield against those guys with guns, and I was just about to strangle her and leave her body here to throw them off my trail. But then you showed up and foiled my evil plans. Lucky for you, though. You get to rescue chloe again and win her undying grattitude.” ~ Kelley Armstrong
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“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Plan your work – work your plan. Lack of system produces that ‘I’m swamped’ feeling.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here’s my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn’t you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?” ~ Jim Rohn
- “The Bible reveals the Father’s overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.” ~ Charles Stanley
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“The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God.” ~ Smith Wigglesworth
- “If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.” ~ T. D. Jakes
- “Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -certainly no more difficult – than small ideas and small plans.” ~ David J. Schwartz
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“You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.” ~ Mary J. Blige
- “Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.” ~ Will Rogers
- “The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.” ~ Laurens van der Post
- “Don’t sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.” ~ James Altucher
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“God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
- “My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.” ~ Bob Goff
- “Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.” ~ Alexa Von Tobel
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“By nature, it’s impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that’s impossible. Wake up! That’ll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!” ~ Osamu Tezuka
- “There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God’s secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.” ~ John Calvin
- “Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world – hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.” ~ Stewart Cink
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“The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.” ~ Henry Ford
- “The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and who is ready to receive us into Heaven, is a substantial concept, rich in meaning and significance for human life. But if we take away all this, and leave only the idea of an original cause, it is questionable whether the same word should even be used. By keeping the original word, we delude ourselves into thinking that we are talking about the same thing.” ~ James Rachels
- “If you’re not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.” ~ Carolyn Hax
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“People get into relationships. They get married and have kids, and all of a sudden, you can’t just pick up and go get coffee, or go away for the weekend together, or go to a costume party together. It becomes a thing you have to plan.” ~ Cristin Milioti
- “Well, I think that’s been my career. I always choose stuff that’s the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn’t plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn’t wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.” ~ Michael Rooker
- “But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn’t plan it, but I’m proud that it happened. Which is probably why they didn’t interview me for this DVD.” ~ Nicholas Meyer
