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700 Inspirational Planner Quotes: Motivational Planning (2023)

1. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” – Jim Rohn


2. “I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.” – Oprah Winfrey


3. Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.


4. “Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.” ― Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker


5. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” — Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook


6. “Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” ― Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom


7. “Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”


8. “Unplanned does not mean unwanted or unloved. It just means life knew what I needed before I did.”


9. “Until my practice period was completed, I deliberately neglected everything else. That program of planned neglect, I believe, accounts for my success.”


10. “I didn’t plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can..” – Tichina Arnold


11. “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


12. “Purposeful planning is most effective when you are actively seeking and getting feedback from those whose judgement you trust and respect.”


13. “I’m not planning on growing up anytime soon!”


14. “The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.” – Jerry Brown


15. “I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.” — Zendaya


16. Sister, you’ve already done the hard part of growing old. Now let me handle the hard part of planning a party. Happy birthday!


17. “We will have to become ‘perpetual marketers’, to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.” ~ John Woodward


18. “Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance.” ― Stephen Keague, author


19. “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


20. “I didn’t plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can” ‒ Tichina Arnold


21. “When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.” ~ Alan A. Altshuler


22. “You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you’re down to your reflexes – your training. That’s where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of morning, you’re getting found out now, under the bright lights.” – Joe Frazier


23. “Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it right then, and God put you there to deliver.”


24. “If you just work on stuff you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out” – Mark Zuckerberg


25. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell


26. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller


27. “SUNDAY. The day… I planned a lot, but actually do nothing.” ~ Anonymous


28. “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”


29. A good plan now is better than a great plan too late. – Verne Harnish


30. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra


31. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain — your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Jones


32. This year for your birthday I plan on indulging your every whim, and when I say whim, I really mean bribing your affection with chocolate! Here’s a good life lesson, there’s nothing chocolate can’t fix.


33. “Plan in Analog — spend time in analog before jumping to digital”


34. “My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, “Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do something.” And I’ll plan a trip and go on a motorcycle trip down the Baja Peninsula for 900 miles and I’ll hang out with my friends for like a month, and then they’ll never see me for two months or three months or whatever, and I won’t answer any calls.” ~ Jim Carrey


35. I'm not good at future planning. I do not plan at all. Don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. Do not have a day planner and don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.. — Joker


36. “The average American’s day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles’s dartboard.” ~ Dennis Miller


37. If you and your partner didn't find out about your pregnancy together, there are several ways you could plan a surprise announcement. All work whether you’ve been trying to have a baby, or if this is an exciting and unexpected pregnancy announcement. Here's some inspiration:


38. “Unplanned moments are always better than planned ones.” — Unknown


39. “Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job”


40. “I’m not a big planner when I travel; I just feel it out.” ~ Daria Werbowy


41. “Push up your sleeve, then, there’s a good fellow,” Thomas said, seating himself on the arm of Matthew’s chair. “Let’s wake you up and James can tell us whatever mad thing he has planned.”


42. Soon you will be driving around town and planning your adult future. For me, the years have flown by since you were little. I promise you, they will for you as well. I hope you make the most of every minute. Happy 16th birthday to a smart and talented young [woman/man].


43. “Coping with my unplanned pregnancy lent me both compassion and perspective. Through all of our experiences in life, there is something to learn.” – Claire Fulmer


44. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” – Sandy Gingras


45. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer


46. “You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work.”


47. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States


"48. Thursday is my favorite day to plan for the future because it’s the day that comes before Friday.”


Thursday is my favorite day to plan how I’m going to get out of the plans I already made for the weekend.”"


49. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” ― Catherine Jones


50. “Strategy per se did not separate the good-to-great companies from the comparison companies. Both sets had strategies, and there is no evidence that the good-to-great companies spent more time on strategic planning than the comparison companies.”


51. “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, poet and essayist


52. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”


53. “Making a plan without the right tools is like making spaghetti without a pot.” – Me


54. What are you doing planning for the future? Well it's all right now. But later? Forget it baby. That's later. Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?


55. “Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.” ~ Jane Bryant Quinn


56. “An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.”


57. “An organization’s strategy is simply its plan for success . . . Every single decision, if it is made intentionally and consistently will be part of the overall strategy.”


58. “Coping with my unplanned pregnancy lent me both compassion and perspective. Through all of our experiences in life, there is something to learn.” — Claire Fulmer


59. “Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.” ~ Max McKeown


60. “Unplanned does not mean unwanted or unloved. It just means life knew what I needed before I even did.” — Unknown


61. “I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.”


62. The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two...


63. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” ― Yogi Berra, former New York Yankees catcher


64. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - George Patton


65. “It’s the shoulder kisses and cooked breakfasts and the “drive safe” texts. It’s those little things that for some reason make you feel more loved than you have ever before. It’s easy to plan an elaborate night out, but when someone can make you feel so happy just by doing the smallest things, that’s when you know you’ve got something special.”


66. Happy birthday happy, happy birthday, that’s my birthday wish for you, I hope your day brings you joy, whatever you plan to do. Live each moment to the fullest, every single moment is dear, this is the time to remember, you only get one birthday a year.”


67. “Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!”


68. There was a time when we used to tell friends: ‘Lets meet & plan something’ and now we say: ‘Lets plan and meet some day’. Thats how the life change.


69. “You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.”


70. “It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.”


71. “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.”– Unknown


72. “If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for 10 years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.” – Kuan Chung


73. “I planned a special get-away with you on this special day. But, that doesn’t mean we are getting away forever. I still want us to come back to our home where we have sweet memories. Happy birthday!”


74. “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”


75. “Unplanned pregnancy is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities…”


76. “Quinn’s First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can’t follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stockbrokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want because no one really knows what’s true. The First Corollary to Quinn’s First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn’t buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.” ~ Jane Bryant Quinn


77. Congratulations on being done with wedding planning


78. “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


79. “Eating right and taking the time to slow down and plan in the morning is crucial to a productive day.” ~ David Moore


80. “When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.”


81. “I woke up this morning, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, there was a cool breeze blowing and all I could think about was you. It seems like just yesterday we were having lunch and you told me you loved me. It seems like only yesterday we were laughing and crying and planning our future together. What better way to start the day than to reflect on how amazing it is we get to wake up and be together every morning? Good morning beautiful!” – Calin


82. “The five of us walking confidently in a row, I’d never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.”


83. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”


84. “Have a bias towards action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.” – Indira Gandhi


85. Setbacks don’t mean you have chosen the wrong goals, but you might need another approach to reach your ultimate destination. If your initial plan doesn’t work, why worry?


86. “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”


87. “There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.”


88. “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” — E.B. White


89. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” ― Thomas Edison, inventor


90. Understanding God's predestined plan for your life is a powerful


91. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. –George Patton


92. “I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”


93. Actions are much more important than dreams in order to achieve something really great. You must have a proper plan for how to achieve it. And the most important thing is that you must believe yourself that you can do it. I wish you good luck with all the things you have to achieve.


94. “The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources – labor, capital, and human ingenuity – in a manner that can’t be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.” ~ Friedrich August von Hayek


95. “An unplanned baby is a blessing from Heaven, a gift from the angels.” – Unknown


96. Congratulations to my baby boy on your 6 months birthday today. May God walk with you through your lifetime and guide you to His perfect plan for your life. Cheers and enjoy your day.


97. “The lines between body and womb have become blurred, a vessel inside a vessel. The physical body – the visible collection of bones and skin we present to the world – does not fully belong to its owner if the womb within it contains an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. There are all kinds of people ready to queue up and remind a woman of that.” — Sinéad Gleeso


98. Choose me or lose me. I'm not a backup plan and definitely not a second choice. — Unknown


99. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” – Michael Pollan


100. As some wise person once said, ‘Life is not a dress rehearsal.’ This is it! So unless you plan to give it a better shot in your next life — assuming you are lucky enough to get a second chance — then why risk wasting any of your limited time on this earth doing stuff that doesn’t light your fire?” – Richard Branson


101. “Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.” – Simon Sinek


102. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ― Pablo Picasso, painter


103. “Planning is a skill and an art which takes a lifetime to master.”


104. “Unplanned moments bring the happiness you never imagined.”


105. “There’s a whole birthing plan, but what is the plan other than to get it out? I mean, there isn’t an option to kind of keep it in, is there? So I’m assuming my plan is to get it out. But apparently, there’s more to the plan than that. I don’t know what that is,” -Keira Knightley


106. 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


107. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln


108. “Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.” – Peter Drucker


109. “When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.”


110. “But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line—well, you’re deluding yourself. For one thing, it’s easier to plan derivative work—things that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.”


111. The joy of drinking coffee on a Tuesday morning is like waking up from a dream where nothing ever goes as planned. And there’s nothing like the feeling when you finally make it through to the end of your week.


112. “God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher


113. “Because of this lack of real commitment and buy-in, team members develop an avoidance of accountability, the fourth dysfunction. Without committing to a clear plan of action, even the most focused and driven people often hesitate to call their peers on actions and behaviors that seem counterproductive to the good of the team.”


114. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action becomes reality.” – Unknown


115. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”


116. “When my company started really growing, I didn’t have any help in my house at all. I had the upkeep of my daily life, I had a one year old and a three year old, and I had my house. So I had to prioritize.” – Julie Aigner Clark


117. “The essential reform of our plan from this point of view may be defined as follows: during the difficult time of adolescence it is helpful to leave the accustomed environment of the family in the town and go to quiet surroundings in the country, close to nature. Here, an open-air life, individual care, and a non-toxic diet, must be the first considerations in organising a "centre for study and work." ”


118. “Let’s plan a trip. A weekend getaway to anywhere in the world. We’ll plan it right in the midst of all this to show cancer you’re still the boss of your own life.”


119. “Just because my pregnancy was an unplanned one doesn’t mean my child was any less wanted, wished, or loved than the children who were planned. Either way, all children are gifts from God.”


120. “The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.”


121. “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world,” E. B. White once wrote. “This makes it difficult to plan the day.” ― Adam M. Grant


122. The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. – Allyson Felix


123. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett, investor


124. “For more unplanned pregnancy quotes, all you need to do is search for them on any social media site you can imagine.”


125. Obito Uchiha was the member of the Uchiha clan of Konohagakure. He was trained by Madara Uchiha. But due to war, he got disillusioned with reality and inherited the plan of Madara Uchiha to create an ideal world where there are no wars at all.


126. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell


127. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”


128. “Did you once have a grand plan which has become obsolete and no longer serves you? If there are areas in your life that must change to help you create better results, a redesign may be in order. Consider going back to the ‘drawing board’ to deconstruct what isn’t working and start anew.”―Susan C. Young


129. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell


130. “Don’t let an unplanned pregnancy force you to choose abortion. Pregnant women are either too young or too old, or it’s too soon after another pregnancy, or she’s going to get in trouble at work. She’s too poor, too rich, too successful, too skinny, too fat, too crazy, too busy, too single, too married, too too.” ― Jim Gaffigan


131. “I’m not good at future planning. I do not plan at all. Don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. Do not have a day planner and don’t have a dairy. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”


132. “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” ― Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor


133. “There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.” ― Galt Niederhoffer


134. Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent.


135. Not only are you always on my mind, but you will forever be in my heart. A husband as loving as you is hard to find, and I plan on spending the rest of my days being grateful I found you.


136. Congrats on being done with wedding planning!


137. “Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”


138. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” – Catherine Jones


139. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” – Peter F. Drucker


140. “Failing to plan is planning to fail”


141. “…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.” ― Chaim Potok, author


142. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ” Michael Pollan


143. “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” ― Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and author


144. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”


145. “Equality is the planning committee.


146. “If you don't know where you are going,


147. “SUNDAY – The day I planned a lot but did nothing.” —Lovely Goyal


148. “We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.” ~ George W. Bush


149. “Just because you made a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.” Taylor Swift


150. “Central to God’s eternal plan is the mission of His Son, Jesus Christ. He came to redeem God’s children. Because of the Lord’s Atonement, resurrection (or immortality) became a reality. Because of the Atonement, eternal life became a possibility for all who would qualify. For the Atonement of the Lord and His gift of resurrection—for this sublime message of Easter—thanks be to God!” – Russell M. Nelson


151. “To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.” ~ William Easterly


152. “A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.”


153. “If motion doesn’t lead to results, why do we do it? Sometimes we do it because we actually need to plan or learn more. But more often than not, we do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure.”


154. 33. Pose with a high chair. Put a high chair next to you or between you and your partner and strike a pose. Make it more creative by holding a sign announcing your pregnancy! You’ll need a baby high chair eventually, so plan ahead and get one before your little one’s arrival or borrow one from a friend for this unique pregnancy announcement idea.


155. “The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.” ― Jerry Brown, Governor of California


156. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ~ Benjamin Franklin


157. “The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.”


158. “My Life.. May not going as I planned but it is going exactly the way god planned it”.


159. “An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.”


160. “A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as the streets of successful city neighborhoods always do, must have three main qualities:


161. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” Michael Pollan


162. “Unplanned doesn’t mean unwanted or unloved. It just means life knew what I needed before even I did.”


163. “Compassion for yourself is fundamental, since if you don’t care how you feel and want to do something about it, it’s hard to make an effort to become happier and more resilient. Compassion is both soft and muscular. For example, studies show that when people feel compassion, motor planning areas in the brain begin preparing for action.” – Rick Hanson


164. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!” ― Brian Tracy, author and motivational speaker


165. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbel


166. Always plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ― Richard Cushing


167. “Mom is a planner, an organizer. She’s very strong and practical. She’s the person that’ll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.” ~ Taylor Swift


168. “I finally understand / for a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There’s no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated” —Tupac Shakur


169. “It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.”


170. If plan A fails, then proceed with the rest of the alphabet.


171. “If your priorities don’t get scheduled into your planner, other people’s priorities will get put into your planner.” ~ Robin Sharma


172. “One unplanned pregnancy saved us all.”


173. “Have you found a good road to where you are? If so, we want to send other men to join you." Livingstone replied, "I want men who will come even if there is no road at all.” If you keep your attitude positive but plan for the worst, you'll find yourself in a good position to solve problems that come your way.”


174. “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”


175. “I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”


176. “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


177. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” —Denis Waitley


178. “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.”


179. 31. Baby beach hat. Some couples like to take a “babymoon” vacation before their little one arrives. If you’re planning one with a beach destination, get a custom-made beach hat that says something like “baby on the way” and pose with it while in paradise.


180. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg (see more Mark Zuckerberg quotes)


181. Today is all about you. I’ve planned out the best girl’s day ever: there will be cake, wine, shopping, and boy ogling. I’m not sure you’re ready, so prepare for the best birthday a girl could ask for!


182. “Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders, and planners marry dreamers.” ~ Olivia Mellan


183. “Of all the islands he’d visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.” ~ Roberto Bolano


184. “Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ― Richard Cushing, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church


185. “Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.” Simon Sinek


186. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


187. “Plan on the go. Go with the flow.”


188. “At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.” — Sandy Gingras


189. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”~ George S. Patton


190. “Talking ’bout cars and dreaming ’bout women / Never had a plan just a livin’ for the minute / Yeah way down yonder on the Chattahoochee / Never knew how much that muddy water meant to me.” -Alan Jackson


191. “We operate by core values that include “radical candor” (as originated by Kim Scott) as well as our more original value, “Speak up, then commit,” which encourages earnest discussion during the planning phase and then full follow-through after decisions. All our values promote communication, teamwork and mutual trust. We are continuously building a culture of active participation where all voices are heard and respected.” —Alex Lyashok, WorkFusion.


192. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” – Catherine Zeta-Jones


193. “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”


194. “There are unplanned pregnancies, but… There are no unplanned people!!”


195. “Where I’m is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You’re trapped in your hotel room. It’s the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner. Our Stair Master to Heaven.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk , Daily planner quotes


196. “Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.” – Peter Drucker


197. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” ― John F. Kennedy, former U.S. President


198. “The more the plans fail the more the planner’s plan.”


199. “An organization’s strategy is simply its plan for success.”


200. “The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. ”


201. “The majority of people don’t want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life.”


202. “Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.”


203. “Novelist Victor Hugo believed, "He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life . . . But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.”


204. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.” – Sandy Gingras


205. Choose me or lose me. I’m not a backup plan and definitely not a second choice


206. Wedding planning has been so much fun (HAHAHAHAHAHA)


207. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”


208. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ~ Maya Angelou


209. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”


210. “The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done…you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” – Lil Wayne


211. “This has to do with planning. It’s better to look ahead and prepare than look back and regret.”


212. “When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’”


213. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.”– Catherine Zeta-Jones


214. If a plan didn’t work, Alphabet has 25 more letters.


215. “Choose your mentors based on who you want to be. Mentors can reflect where you want to go, they can create access for you, and give you guidance as you plan your own personal development.”


216. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook


217. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell


218. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.” ~ Wilferd Peterson


219. “You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins.”


220. I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.


221. Remember: your Life’s Task is a living, breathing organism. The moment you rigidly follow a plan set in your youth, you lock yourself into a position, and the times will ruthlessly pass you by.” – Robert Greene, Mastery


222. I am ecstatic that today is your birthday, baby sis! It’s a whole day where we get to celebrate how truly magnificent you. Prepare yourself for some serious love and adoration coming your way, because I plan on spoiling you rotten today!


223. “My life may not be going the way I planned it, but it is going exactly the way God planned it.” – Unknown


224. “For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it’s office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.” – Tom Peters


225. “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, author


226. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln


227. “The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.” ~ Allyson Felix


228. Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.


229. “70% of people that start a fitness plan quit. Except you. Not this time.”


230. “Life is full of ups and downs; everything we plan does not always go as planned, but my love for you will forever remain the same. No matter what happens, I’ll always love you.”


231. “Only he can take evil, demonic, horrific experiences and thread them into his cosmic plan of redemption.”


232. “A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”


233. “The problem is that when we speak of plan Bs, we already negate the possibility of moving on with plan A.” ~ Isaac Herzog


234. “The real questions for parents should be: “Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?” If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”


235. Daughters as amazing as you are one-in-a-million. How I lucked out I will never know, but I plan on spending the rest of my life being so grateful that I have you in my life.


236. “A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.” — Patricia Heaton


"237. Thursday is my favorite day to plan how I’m going to waste the other six.”


Thursday is my favorite day to plan how I’m going to procrastinate the other six.”"


238. “The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”


239. When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices. - Author: Linda Kaplan Thaler


240. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar


241. “Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.” – Erik Qualman (@equalman)


242. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” ― Alexander Graham Bell, inventor


243. “Barnes won his goal, because he wanted to be a business associate of Mr. Edison, more than he wanted anything else. He created a plan by which to attain that purpose. But he BURNED ALL BRIDGES BEHIND HIM. He stood by his DESIRE until it became the dominating obsession of his life-and-finally, a fact.”


244. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, writer and pioneering aviator


245. “When you think of Eden, don’t think of a public park with a lawn, a play set, and a flowerbed or two, where God hands Adam a lawnmower and says, Keep it tidy, will ya? Think of a violent, untamed wilderness teeming with beauty, but no infrastructure, no roads, no bridges, no cities, no civilization, and God says, Go make a world. Adam wasn’t a landscape-maintenance employee. He was an explorer, a cartographer, a gardener, a designer, an architect, a builder, an urban planner, a city-maker.”


246. Good morning, runners! 😃Training for a marathon? Download our 26.2 Training Plan 👉 www.philippinesmarathon2017.com/trainingplan #DuterteRunsPH


247. “Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.” ~ Peter Arnett


248. The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce. This mingling must be fairly close-grained.


249. “The real questions for parents should be: ‘Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?’ If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn’t exist, and I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”


250. 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


251. “Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.”


252. “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.”


253. “Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.” – Stephen Covey


254. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell


255. “Dear mom, who needs to be reminded that she matters- this is your reminder. Now go back to all your doing- your cleaning, working, driving, nose-wiping, cooking, clothes folding, everyday things, and hold your head high. Motherhood matters. More than having the perfect house, the perfect body, the perfect planning schedule, the perfect kids, the perfect anything. You are a game-changer, a life-changer. You are their mother. This is why you matter.”


256. “The only comfort I found was in planning to disappear.”


257. “There’s no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated.” – Tupac Shakur


258. “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.” ― Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister


259. “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” ― Alan Lakein, author


260. “When we hear a powerful persuasive message, we get suspicious. In some cases, we’re concerned about being tricked. In other situations, we just want to make our own free choices, rather than having our decisions controlled by someone else. So if I tell you to go out and vote, you might resist. But when I ask if you’re planning to vote, you don’t feel like I’m trying to influence you. It’s an innocent query, and instead of resisting my influence, you reflect on it. You’ve been convinced by someone you already like and trust: yourself.”


261. 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.


262. “Unplanned moments bring the happiness you never imagined.” — Unknown


263. “Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person—hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre—into an outstanding performer.”


264. “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.”


265. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.”


266. “Several things ran through my head as I watched this silent ballet: First, I was running low on pears, my favorite morning fruit. Second, I, as a woman, am much smarter than men, I having displayed foresight this male apparently lacked in regards to trash day. And finally, I desperately needed to see more of this man in his boxers.”


267. “If you plan on becoming a TIG welder, you better plan on doing lots and lots of burning.” By Marty Rice


268. “Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.” – Ann McLane Kuster


269. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell


270. “All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.” ~ James Surowiecki


271. Pose with a high chair. Put a high chair next to you or between you and your partner and strike a pose. Make it more creative by holding a sign announcing your pregnancy! You’ll need a baby high chair eventually, so plan ahead and get one before your little one’s arrival or borrow one from a friend for this unique pregnancy announcement idea.


272. “The thing that’s nice bout unplanned pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby of joy of life.”


273. “Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of ‘let’s just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.'”


274. “We cannot drive people; we must direct their development” – Henry Gantt, creator of the Gantt Chart


275. “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, former U.S. President


276. “When things around you are not going as planned… just relax and leave it to time… all things will fall in place as they are meant to be.”


277. Understanding God's predestined plan for your life is a powerful tool for maturing you in the faith.


278. “There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention to the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.” ― Indra Nooyi


279. “Unplanned does not mean unwanted or unloved. It just means life knew what I needed before I even did.”


280. “If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn’t take Freud’s books with me, because I’ve already read them all.” – Anne Roiphe


281. “I never have planned a whole lot of future. It’s one day at a time.”


282. “My life may not be going the way I planned it, but it is going exactly the way God planned it.”


283. “I wasn't planning to lead, I was standing in the back and then everyone turned around.”


284. It’s good to hear everything went well as planned. Wish you all the best and a quick recovery.


285. I always wondered what would happen if my mom had to count past three. Now that I am a mom, I know that she was praying it wouldn’t go that far cause we really don’t have a plan when we start counting. – Unknown


286. “If you take a risk and it doesn't go as planned, welcome to the club.” — Fran Hauser, Startup Investor, Advisor, & Author


287. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”


288. When you were little, you were never afraid to give me tons of kisses, but now you seem so embarrassed! As a parent, it is my duty to embarrass you as much as possible, so this year I plan to smother you with hugs and kisses in front of all your friends. You are so welcome.


289. Pixar started as a company that sold a special computer for doing digital animation; it took a while till they got into the moviemaking business. Similarly, Starbucks originally sold only coffee beans and coffee equipment; they hadn't planned to sell coffee by the cup. - Author: Reid Hoffman


290. “You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.”


291. “Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Richard Cushing


292. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”


293. “I remember saying to my mentor, ‘If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, ‘I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.”


294. We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.


295. “Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy.


296. “Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” - Thomas S. Monson


297. “During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently, the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years, I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk.” ~ Dave Barry


298. “The day…I planned a lot but actually do nothing.” – Lovely Goyal


299. “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


300. “Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that’s what I plan on doing with all mine. They’re not necessarily my secrets to tell. I’m the gatekeeper of other people’s secrets.” Drew Lachey


301. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell


302. “You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”


303. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure.” ~ Confucius


304. You always spoil me with your love, so this year I want to return the favor. Anything you want for your big day just let me know. I plan on pulling out all the stops and surrounding you with love and affection. Happy birthday husband!


305. “Sometimes, you may take a step backwards only to realize that a step forward could have been the best choice. Sometimes, you may take a step forward only to notice that a step backwards could have been better; and sometimes, you may only come to a later understanding that stepping aside could have been a great choice, but in all, before you take a step, ponder! The footprint of whatever step is what matter and it must be distinctive”


306. “My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband’s side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner, and the dreamer.” ~ Lucille Ball


307. “An unplanned baby is a blessing from Heaven, a gift from the angels.”


308. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”


309. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” – Pablo Picasso


310. “No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.”


311. “I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. They [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner – and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers […] a miracle from God.” ~ Muqtada al Sadr


312. “…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”


313. With adequate planning, passion, and perseverance, you can achieve the God-given goals. - Lailah Gifty Akita


314. “Dr. King offered America a place to go, not a plan to follow.”


315. “Always, Always have a plan”


316. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”


317. “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”


318. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”


319. You can’t keep today’s hour for tomorrow – we all know that, but still tend to procrastinate. Benjamin Franklin warns that time is a scarce resource, and if it’s wasted, it cannot be recovered later. This is why mindful planning and work on productivity are so important.


320. “Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?”


321. If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us


322. “…We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven’t ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.” ~ Linda Howard


323. “God has planned this for you.”


324. “Many of us were the unplanned children of talented, creative women whose lives had been changed by unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.”


325. “Life never goes as planned.”


326. “There are unplanned pregnancies, but there are no unplanned people.” — Unknown


327. “Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.” ~ Jim Stanford


328. It’s always fun to look back at your training plan and realize that you beat it #marathon #run #stayloyal #greatist


329. I don’t want to be a backup plan because I want to be a priority. Please don’t treat me like an option because you see my weakness. I’m not going to wait for you because you’re convenient. I deserve better than that.


330. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. You’ve gotta do something and you’ve gotta do something fast. You just sitting around talking about it and hoping for things to get better isn’t going to do anything.”


331. “SUNDAY: The day..I planned a lot but actually do nothing.” – Lovely Goyal


332. “To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:


333. “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” ― Fitzhugh Dodson, author


334. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’” — Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github


335. “When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.”


336. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” — Sandy Gingras


337. “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” ― Denis Waitley, writer and motivational speaker


338. You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.” – Joel Osteen


339. “I ain’t Martin Luther King. I don’t need a dream. I have a plan.” – Spike Lee


340. “Plan your next move because every step contributes towards your goal.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, author and motivational speaker


341. “She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.”


342. “Don’t mistake silence for weakness; smart people don’t plan big moves out loud.” – Anonymous


343. “Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future.” – Mmanti Umoh


344. “My pregnancy was unplanned. I feel like a terrible mom because I’ve been too depressed to enjoy any of it. I feel no connection to my baby.”


345. “Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”


346. “If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility.” — Augustine


347. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” — Jim Rohn


348. “That’s what we do in this country. That’s the American Dream. That’s freedom, and I’ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.” ~ Paul Ryan


349. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”


350. Wedding planning is such a fun process, said nobody ever.


351. “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” ~ Emily Giffin


352. SUNDAY – The day I planned a lot but actually do nothing. – Lovely Goyal


353. When I was younger, you had to do everything for me, but now it’s my turn to do it all for you. I am so excited that I get to pamper the mess out of you! I plan on lavishing you with affection on your birthday, Mom.


354. “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” ~ Winston Churchill


355. “If the plan doesn’t work change the plan, not the goal.”


356. “A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.”


357. Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same. — Catherine Jones


358. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”


359. Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.


360. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Zeta-Jones


361. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” ~ Jim Rohn


362. “Unplanned doesn’t mean unwanted or unloved. It just mean life knew what I needed before even I did”.


363. “Fail to plan, plan to fail.”


364. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell


365. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”


366. Let’s plan a fall day filled with wandering through an open-air market, festive drinks, and caramel-y scents wafting through the air.


367. “If motion doesn’t lead to results, why do we do it? Sometimes we do it because we actually need to plan or learn more. But more often than not, we do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure. Most of us are experts at avoiding criticism. It doesn’t feel good to fail or to be judged publicly, so we tend to avoid situations where that might happen. And that’s the biggest reason why you slip into motion rather than taking action: you want to delay failure.”


368. “Autism is a journey I never planned, but I sure do love my tour guide.”


369. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley


370. “Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy-it won’t come out while you’re watching.”


371. “Failing to plan is planning to fail.”


372. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” ― George S. Patton, former Officer in the U.S. Army


373. “Good haul this year. Thanks for the Broom Compass, it’s excellent, beats Hermione’s — she’s got me a homework planner —” ~ Ron, Order of the Phoenix


374. “The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” ― Lil Wayne, rapper


375. “Motherhood requires confidence…a sense of knowing what you are doing doesn’t have an instruction manual, but if we love our kids unconditionally, then being present for them will make all the difference…and maybe one day they’ll know how hard you tried even when sometimes things didn’t go as planned.”


376. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Jones


377. For example, you might want to tell your partner first, especially if you're experiencing any early signs of pregnancy. Parents typically come next, but choosing when to tell your parents you’re pregnant may depend on how you plan to share the news. Other family members and best friends are usually next in line, but you may wait to share the news with your colleagues and wider circle of friends and acquaintances.


378. Things might not go the way you have planned them to go, but never give up hope. Always know that you can always rely on me to have your back. Have a beautiful day!


379. “Don’t be busy, be productive.”


380. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.


381. When things don’t go as planned, don’t worry, it’s just life.


382. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.”


383. “Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying!”


384. “When I went to my room after breakfast, I made my bed, straightened the room, dusted the floor, and did whatever else came to my attention. Then I hurried to my violin practice. I found I wasn’t progressing as I thought I should, so I reversed things. Until my practice period was completed, I deliberately neglected everything else. That program of planned neglect, I believe, accounts for my success.”


385. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem


386. “I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That’s what I planned to do with my life.” ~ Clay Aiken


387. “I planned to send you a romantic good morning message. But this is all I've got.”


388. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” – Peter Marshall


389. “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 quotes about life


390. “Always planning for the future is like witnessing the beauty of sunset while thinking only of tomorrow’s sunrise.” – We Dream of Travel


391. University is a time of excitement, nerves and expectations. But for some students, exam week can be one of the most stressful, with fears about exams bringing exhaustion, headaches and even nausea. The good news is that with some forward planning and determination, you can get through it and feel calmer when it’s all over.


392. There must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there...”


393. ‘I didn’t plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal the card you are delt the best way you can.’ – Tichina Arnold


394. “Don’t mistake silence for weakness, smart people don’t plan big moves out loud.”


395. If you are planning to increase the pricing without losing any customers? So make sure to read out the tips to increase pricing without losing customers.


396. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg


397. “Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”


398. Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain - your life will never be the same.


399. “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.” — Author Unknown


400. If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. —Chinese proverb


401. We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell


402. Does the thought of a depression relapse frighten you? You can lessen the fear by coming up with a wellness plan to take some of the mystery of what a relapse might entail.


403. “If you plan on becoming a TIG welder, you better plan on doing lots and lots of burning.” — Marty Rice


404. At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”


405. “Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” ― Zig Ziglar, author and motivational speaker


406. A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” ― George Patton


407. I planned on saying a lot of things to you, but all I could really come up with is that I miss you.


408. “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” ~ John Ruskin


409. “Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea-oriented. We then hired ahead of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner, and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.” ~ John Welch


410. “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”


411. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”


412. “Fun is not to be planned. It is to be found.” – Ihsan


413. “Happy Sunday. Whatever you’ve got planned to enjoy. Wishing you a restful, peaceful, beautiful day.”


414. “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.”


415. “Since the Leeburg Pike [at Tyson's Corner] carries six to eight lanes of fast-moving traffic and the mall lacks an obvious pedestrian entrance, I decided to negotiate the street in my car rather than on foot. This is a problem planners call the 'drive to lunch syndrome,' typical of edge nodes where nothing is planned in advance and all the development takes place in isolated 'pods'.”


416. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy.”


417. “(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)”


418. Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey


419. “What good is it to have the greatest dream in the world if others reap the benefits and the glory? Never lose your head over a vague, open-ended dream—plan to the end.”


420. “Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.” ― Taylor Swift, singer and songwriter


421. “Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.”


422. “Data-informed decision making is so important, specifically when we are talking about DEI. Rather than just aiming for a quick fix to improve your numbers in terms of diversity, data-informed hiring allows for you to evaluate the physical characteristics such as ethnicity and gender, but also characteristics of diversity of thought, education, or experience that have immense value.” — Kimya Lee, Executive director, strategic workforce planning and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security.


423. “We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.”


424. He stole my heart so I'm planning revenge... I am going to take his last name.


"425. If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.” — Author Unknown


“If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never lose sight of the goal.”


“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” – George S. Patton


A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” – George S. Patton"


426. “I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry’s program planners believe.” ~ Edward R. Murrow


427. “Will you still want me if I’m poor, Kat?” “What kind of question is that?” “No. Seriously. You’re the planner. Simon’s the genius. The Bagshaws are the muscle. And Gabrielle is . . . Gabrielle. But what am I, Kat? I’m the guy who writes the checks.” “No. You’re the most naturally gifted inside man I have ever seen. And I was raised by Bobby Bishop.” She made him look into her eyes. “I don’t care about your money.” ~ Ally Carter


428. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” ~ Paul J. Meyer


429. “If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.”


430. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.” – Joel Osteen


431. “Education is the help we must give to life so that it may develop in the greatness of its powers. To help those great forces which bring the child, inert at birth, to the greatness of the adult being, this should be the plan of education – to see what help we can give. ”


432. “A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” ― Confucius, Chinese philosopher


433. “The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest. ”


434. “Seventy percent of people that start a fitness plan quit. Except you. Not this time.” – Anonymous


435. “Motherhood requires confidence…a sense of knowing what you are doing doesn’t have an instruction manual, but if we love our kids unconditionally, then being present for them will make all the difference…and maybe one day they’ll know how hard you tried even when sometimes things didn’t go as planned.” — Mindy Kaling


436. Lord, calm my nerves and help me to to confidently relax in your peace. May I trust in your plan - a plan that is for a good future! Give me strength and patience in the coming day as I help my husbsand recover from this surgery. Grow our relationship through this and may we come out of it with a stronger faith. In Jesus' name, amen.


437. “It is hard to think of many things that do more damage to an organization than leaders who have no plan for how they will hand over power.” – Anonymous


438. “The thing that’s nice about unplanned pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby, a joy of life.” – Unknown


439. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell


440. “Choose your mentors based on who you want to be. Mentors can reflect where you want to go, they can create access for you, and give you guidance as you plan your own personal development.” – Ranu Gupta, Talent and Technology Strategist and Transformational Leader


441. “Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to succeed, but more importantly, what’s your plan to succeed?” – Jim Rohn


442. “Each day, wake up with a plan. Don’t just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness.”


443. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’” – Tom Preston-Werner


444. “You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.” — Sidney A. Friedman


445. You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public. - Author: Celia Cruz


446. “Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus


447. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same.”


448. “Unplanned moments are always better than planned ones.” – Unknown


449. “Don’t call it a dream, call it a plan.”


450. “Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be.


451. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”


452. 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


453. “It is hard to think of many things that do more damage to an organization than leaders who have no plan for how they will hand over power.” —Andy Crouch, Strong and Weak


454. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett


455. ” Even if it this pregnancy was not planned, God knew I needed you the moment he blessed me with you” – stressfreemommies


456. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” George Patton


457. “The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.” ~ Ronald Reagan


458. Daughter, you are better than fame, money, and even sliced bread! You are truly a phenomenal human being, and I plan on telling you so every single day until the end of time. I hope your year is as stupendous as you are.


459. “Sometimes when life doesn’t work out as you planned, there is a greater force at work.” ― Deanna Kahler


460. “Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki


461. If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility. — Augustine


462. “An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.”


463. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour, but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.” – Unknown


464. “I’m a planner, and most networks don’t plan. Bravo doesn’t plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways – they’ve got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don’t nurture it. They lost ‘Project Runway.'” ~ Patti Stanger


465. “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


466. “I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ...


467. “SUNDAY. The day… I planned a lot, but actually do nothing.” ― Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me


468. “Even when matches don't work out the way you planned, you've always got to stay strong in defense; it's a matter of willpower and intelligence.” – Becky Sauerbrunn


469. “Think about it. If I'm going to stab someone in the back, I have to go get a knife, hide it, wait until I'm alone with that person, and catch them off guard. I'd better be sure to kill them or they'll come back after me. It takes planning and it's high risk. Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier just to tell that person, "It makes me crazy when you do that, so please stop!"


470. “Coping with my unplanned pregnancy lent me both compassion and perspective. Through all of our experiences in life, there is something to learn.”


471. “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.”


472. “You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.”


473. “Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!” ~ Bliss Carman


474. Nobody panics when things go. according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying!” ― The Joker


475. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” ― Brian Tracy, author and motivational speaker


476. “The aim of strategic planning is action now.”


477. “Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories – I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you’re not getting enough oxygen.”


478. 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


479. “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”- E.B. White


480. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” ~ Booker T. Washington


481. “I had this whole romantic proposal planned, and it didn’t include a pug sweatshirt, but I guess I’ll just wing it.”


482. “If you plan to fight for L’manberg, be prepared to die for it. ” – Wilbur Soot x OC, From “Her Melody”


483. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” –George Patton


484. “Life is full of ups and downs; everything we plan does not always go as planned but my love for you will forever remain the same. No matter what happens I always love you.”


485. “By Failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin


486. “Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest…even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.” ~ Jane Bryant Quinn


487. “If you plan on becoming a TIG welder, you better plan on doing lots and lots of burning.”


488. “I was looking for somewhere to go after I left England. I had some contacts in Romania from my kickboxing days, so I decided to check it out. I ended up loving Romania, and I plan on staying here long-term.”


489. “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem


490. “If I search for a better diet plan and read a few books on the topic, that’s motion. If I actually eat a healthy meal, that’s action.”


491. “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”


492. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work o you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”


493. Great sellers go into a meeting with multiple next-steps; this allows them to proactively respond if a plan does not unfold as planned.” – Tibor Shanto


494. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.” – Greg S. Reid


495. “Happiness is… planning a road trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Unknown


496. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” ― Henry David Thoreau, essayist and poet


497. “An unplanned baby is a blessing from Heaven, a gift from the angels.” — Unknown


498. “Good haul this year. Thanks for the Broom Compass, it’s excellent, beats Hermione’s — she’s got me a homework planner —”


499. “Style for the sake of style alone will have less meaning to the consumer than value. An interruption of the spiral created by boosting sales from year to year with false inducements of style, bulk and flash gives design a new lease on life. Aesthetic beauty will be the direct result of careful planning and precision manufacturing.”


500. “Cultivate optimism by committing yourself to a cause, a plan or a value system. You'll feel that you are growing in a meaningful direction which will help you rise above day-to-day setbacks.”


501. Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same – Catherine Jones


502. “I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197” ~ Daniel Libeskind


503. “Before we can give help, we must understand; we must follow the path from childhood to adulthood. If we can understand, we can help and this help must be the plan of our education: to help man to develop not his defects, but his greatness. ”


504. “The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.”


505. “Caregiving can be isolating. Tending to a loved one requires significant amounts of time at home. Transporting a child with special needs from one place to another is complicated and requires extra equipment and planning.” – Gary Chapman & Jolene Philo


506. “In 1950, only 55% of the working-age population in the U.S. was employed. By 2015, that percentage had risen to 60% — representing a net increase of about 100 million jobs — after many potentially job-killing technologies had been introduced. These included shipping cranes, ATMs, and personal computer spreadsheets. The same could well be true of [AI], especially if we put into place the innovations in education that could help people adapt.” — Peter Schwartz, senior vice president, strategic planning, Salesforce [read the full article]


507. “Many of us were the unplanned children of talented, creative women whose lives had been changed by unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.” — Bell Hooks


508. “Your personal boundaries alert you to abuse and remind you to follow through with your plan to protect yourself.”


509. “Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.”– Ann McLane Kuster


510. “A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.” – Patricia Heaton


511. The Good News: You may not always understand the path you’re on, but you can trust that God has a plan for you, and it is a good one.


512. Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain—your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Jones


513. We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell


514. “A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.”


515. Are you planning a Christmas pregnancy announcements? Here are some festive instagram captions for your post!


516. “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. President


517. “The first definition of planning that I ever learned was this: planning is predetermining tomorrow’s results today.”


518. “Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.”


519. “I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America


520. If you are planning to live a meaningful life, to begin with, cut down selfish friends from your life.


521. As my Good Shepherd, Jesus, I know you will lead me beside quiet places and restore my soul and body. I trust you and want to follow your lead. Help me to welcome this time not as an interruption in my carefully planned schedule, but as an opportunity to draw strength and nourishment for the journey ahead. You are my healer and my Great Physician. I look to you and give thanks for the promises in your Word that assure me of your presence and your help.


522. If plan A doesn’t work out, just remember there are 26 letters in the alphabet. Stay cool.


523. “Make sure you’re not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve…Figure out what’s going on and make a plan to improve things.” – Kenneth W. Thomas, author


524. “Motion makes you feel like you’re getting things done. But really, you’re just preparing to get something done. When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.”


525. “When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,' not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.'”


526. “Looking back at our lives, the unbelievable thing is that despite all the times when things felt so wrong, we still managed to meet at the perfect moment. Almost as if by some plan which we were unaware of.” ― John Mark Green


527. “A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” – Confucius


528. “But it is meaningless to speak of short-range and long-range plans. There are plans that lead to action today—and they are true plans, true strategic decisions. And there are plans that talk about action tomorrow—they are dreams, if not pretexts for nonthinking, nonplanning, nondoing. The”


529. “We must study the correlation between life and its environment. In nature everything correlates. This is the method of nature. Nature is not concerned with the conservation of individual life: it is a harmony, a plan of construction. Everything fits into the plan: winds, rocks, earth, water, plants, man, etc. ”


530. “Don’t worry about planning every step of your life.” ― Rick Wagoner, former chairman and CEO of General Motors


531. “Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.”


532. “Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.”


533. You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future. - Taylor Swift


534. What you focus on you create more of, so if the plan is to get rich, you’re gonna want to focus on abundance as much as possible. Give as much as you can as often as you can, receive with gratitude and joy, think of money as your pal, raise your frequency and get in the flow, yo.” – Jen Sincero


535. “He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.”


536. “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” — Michael Pollan


537. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” – Thomas Edison


538. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


539. SUNDAY – The day I planned a lot but did nothing.” —Lovely Goyal


540. “If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?” ~ William J. Brennan


541. “Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” – Thomas S. Monson


542. Baby beach hat. Some couples like to take a “babymoon” vacation before their little one arrives. If you’re planning one with a beach destination, get a custom-made beach hat that says something like “baby on the way” and pose with it while in paradise.


543. “I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.”


544. “Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.”


545. “If you’re surrounded by people who have a plan to get rich, and you provide value to them, sooner or later you’re going to begin to make money.”


546. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain‚your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Jones


547. “Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” ― Robert H. Schuller, author and televangelist


548. “I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.” ― Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook


549. “The successful leader must plan his work, and work his plan. A leader who moves by guesswork, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.“


550. “I’ve never been a planner. I didn’t know I was going to run for the State House. I didn’t know I was going to run for governor. I don’t know what’s next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.” ~ Nikki Haley


551. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President


552. “There’s no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated.”


553. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” ― Thomas A. Edison


554. “Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.”


555. Thanks for always staying by my side, and I want you to know that no matter what happens in life, I plan on staying right by your side until the end of time. Happy birthday!


556. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.


557. “I said to Tristan we need to discuss this, we need to plan this, we need to work out a way we can get rich. And that’s when I started understanding and analyzing banks, the money system, and how the world really works.”


558. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’” – Tom Preston-Werner


559. “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.” – Akiroq Brost


560. “The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,


561. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”


562. “Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” – Zig Ziglar


563. “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.” ― Claire Cook, writer and motivational speaker


564. “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, Hall of Fame football coach


"565. Think about it; how do you feel when you are planning a vacation? You feel excited and happy. Your stress level is diminished, and this also affects your work in a positive way.”


Think about it; how do you feel when you are planning a vacation? You feel excited and happy. Your stress level is diminished, and this also affects your work in a positive way.” – John Morgan"


566. “Starbucks is planning to close down all the restrooms in its New York locations. Which explains the most popular new Starbucks order: An empty cup.” ~ Jimmy Fallon


567. “Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”


568. “I ain’t Martin Luther King. I don’t need a dream. I have a plan.” ― Spike Lee, actor and director


569. “A birth plan is like having a baby monitor in a studio apartment. It’s useless.” -Unknown


570. “With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can’t learn that.” ~ Jo Nesbo


571. “If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose, we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God’s hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.” ~ Arno Allan Penzias


572. “One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” —John Green


573. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure.’” – Github cofounder Tom Preston-Werner


574. “Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.”


575. “A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.”– Patricia Heaton


576. This Sunday and all the time, don't ever doubt that God has a plan for your life!


577. “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”


578. If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal.


579. “In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.” ~ Urie Bronfenbrenner


580. “As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.” ~ Martin Cruz Smith


581. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” ~ Thomas A. Edison


582. “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.” ― Akiroq Brost


583. “As the corporation moves towards a confederation or a syndicate, it will increasingly need a top management that is separate, powerful, and accountable. This top management’s responsibilities will cover the entire organization’s direction, planning, strategy, values, and principles; its structure and its relationship between its various members; its alliances, partnerships, and joint ventures; and its research, design, and innovation.” — Peter Drucker


584. “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” Leonard Bernstein


585. The HSA (Health Savings Account) is a great way to save on premiums. The high deductible creates a much lower premium, and this plan allows you to save for medical expenses in a tax-free savings account.” — Dave Ramsey


586. “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”


587. “For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? … The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn’t approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.” ~ Kanye West , Wedding daily planner quotes


588. Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Jones


589. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —Joseph Campbell


590. “That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.”


591. “Now, go back to all you are doing – your cleaning, working, driving, nose-wiping, cooking, clothes folding, everyday things – and hold your head high. Motherhood matters. More than having the perfect house, the perfect body, the perfect planning schedule, the perfect kids, the perfect anything. You are a game changer. A life changer. You are their mother. That is why you matter.” – Anonymous


592. “I don’t plan. I don’t think, ‘I have to do this kind of part ’cause I’ve done that kind of part.’ I’m not a very good planner.” ~ Rupert Graves


593. “My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.” ~ Poppy Z. Brite


594. “Take one step at a time. A complex problem can be overwhelming, even when you’ve got your plan mapped out, but remember: the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Just focus on one small goal at a time.”


595. “As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescents are always being criticized for this kind of loitering, but they can hardly grow up without it. The trouble comes when it is done not within society, but as a form of outlaw life.


596. “Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognise failure, will bring riches.”


597. “I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.” ~ Heath Ledger


598. “It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”


599. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas A. Edison


600. “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem


601. “If you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail.”


602. “Breakthroughs don't get planned, they are prepared for.”


603. “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” – Leonard Bernstein


604. “How this feels is I’m just another task in God’s daily planner: The Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes, and tidal waves, God’s got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God’s daily planner has me finished.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk


605. “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


606. God’s plan is always more beautiful than our desire. Good Morning and Happy sunday.


607. “Only later did we discover that our planned drop zone had been strongly covered by the enemy with rifle pits and automatic weapons all around its perimeter. Had the drop taken place as planned, it was quite possible “that the greater breadth of the target would have given the waiting Germans a greatly enhanced opportunity for killing.” Planned or not, Easy Company was scattered across a wide dispersal area several miles west of our objective. How the remainder of the”


608. “Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.”


609. “Every minute you spend in planning saves minutes in execution; this gives you a , percent return on energy!” – Brian Tracy


610. “There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”


611. “There are unplanned pregnancies, but… There are no unplanned people!” – Unknown


612. “Many of us were the unplanned children of talented, creative women whose lives had been changed by unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.” – bell hooks


613. “You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.” – Jon Feltheimer


614. “Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person – hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre – into an outstanding performer.” Peter Drucker


615. “Navigating conflict is not easy. If you decide to speak with the person you are in conflict with, find a private time and place to talk. Be sure not to involve others in the conflict. Practice what you plan to say so you are calm and confident. Your goal is to speak your truth, take responsibility for your part, and treat others with dignity. This is no easy task, but an important skill to practice over time.”


616. We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell


617. “Success follows exactly the same pattern … in reverse. If you plan to make ten calls and you go beyond your quota to fifteen, you’re ahead by five phone calls … today. Do the same with your correspondence and your savings plan and soon you’ll see the accumulated fruits of your diligence over a year and, eventually, over a lifetime.”


618. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” – John F. Kennedy


619. I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated —Tupac Shakur


620. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” –Sandy Gingras


621. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’” —Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github


622. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” ~ Peter Marshall


623. Thanksgiving dinner planning can be so stressful, but working with KFC is not. So, here’s to a relaxing day of long walks, trips to the market, and a big old-fashioned holiday meal. 🍗 #


624. This happiness may be fleeting. We may break up. We may be glad forever. We may break up and get back together repeatedly. The possibilities are endless, so we can’t be sure of anything. But we plan to love each other completely today.” – Unknown


625. “I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually, inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually, it comes.” ~ Manuel Alvarez Bravo


626. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States


627. “A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients’ money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.” ~ Michael Lewis


628. The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. – Michael Pollan


629. “One of the most beautiful unplanned pregnancy quotes.”


630. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”


631. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.”


632. I also agree with you about the whole paralysis by analysis thing. Yes, you have to be smart in your training, and yes, you have to think it through and plan it -- but you also have to chalk your hands, grab the bar and lift it. That's where so many people go wrong. - Brooks Kubik


633. “What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.” —Pearl S. Buck


634. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”


635. “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.”


636. This list is a great way to get rid of that Catholic conscience. There’s no need to get up extra early. Instead, plan a trip to the mountains. Return to walking like the great thinkers of previous generations. We might make a better contribution to the world.


637. “The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.” ― Nido Qubein, president of High Point University


638. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell


639. Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.


640. -“Motherhood requires confidence…a sense of knowing what you are doing doesn’t have an instruction manual but if we love our kids unconditionally then being present for them will make all the difference…and maybe one day they’ll know how hard you tried even when sometimes things didn’t go as planned.” -Mindy Kaling


641. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin


642. “Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values.”


643. “It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action. As Voltaire once wrote, “The best is the enemy of the good.”


644. “May all the beautiful things on earth be yours! I am so glad that I have met you and plan to live with you for the rest of my life. Thank you, my dear love.”


645. “There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole


646. “Choose me or lose me. I’m not a backup plan and definitely not a second choice.”


647. “Is then no nook of English ground secure


648. “You think Ivy’s a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.” ~ Kim Harrison


649. “Unplanned moments are always better than planned ones.”


650. “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.” – Akiroq Brost


651. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell


652. “Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.” — Paulo Coelho


653. “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.” – J.R.R. Tolkien


654. “Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.” ― Chuck Knox, former NFL head coach


655. I married a man who is gentle, thoughtful, and loving. How I managed to entrap you, I’m not sure, but I plan on never letting you escape my clutches! Happy birthday to my eternal prisoner!


656. “You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.”


657. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”


658. “Sometimes when life doesn’t work out as you planned, there is a greater force at work.” — Deanna Kahler


659. “Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.” ~ Simon Sinek


660. “Breakthroughs don’t get planned, they are prepared for.” ― Goitsemang Mvula, South African author and artist


661. “To hear never-heard sounds,


662. “A women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy…”


663. ”SUNDAY – The day I planned a lot but actually do nothing.” – Lovely Goyal


664. “I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That’s what I planned to do with my life.” — Clay Aiken


665. “The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.”


666. “A goal that is not planned is a wish; a dream that is not chased is a fantasy.”


667. “In our plan for the education of little children we must create an attractive environment. Into this environment we must put everything that is good for the mind, along with an understanding and affectionate person. ”


668. “Unplanned does not mean unwanted or unloved. It just means life knew what I needed before I even did.” – Unknown


669. “There’s a whole birthing plan, but what is the plan other than to get it out? I mean, there isn’t an option to kind of keep it in, is there? So I’m assuming my plan is to get it out. But apparently, there’s more to the plan than that. I don’t know what that is.” – Keira Knightley


670. “All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”


671. “My life may not be going the way I planned it, but it is going exactly the way God planned it.” — Unknown


672. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”


673. We are a few months away from receiving the greatest gift of our lives. Come share in our joy as we plan the best baby shower ever.


674. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ― Peter F. Drucker, author and educator


675. “An excuse is nothing more than a well planned lie.” – Dan Lok


676. “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” – Chinese Proverb


677. Deceit is in the heart of those who plan evil, but there is joy for those who advise peace.


678. “With adequate planning, passion and perseverance, you can achieve the God-given goals.”


679. “A good plan executed well is better than a perfect plan executed badly.”


680. “Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.” ~ Ted Sizer


681. “There’s no way I could pay you back, but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated.”


682. “SUNDAY – The day I planned a lot but did nothing.” – Lovely Goyal


683. “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” —Denis Watley


684. “Eating right and taking the time to slow down and plan in the morning is crucial to a productive day.” – David Moore


685. “Don’t mistake silence for weakness. Smart people don’t plan big moves out loud.”


686. “Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of “Let’s just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.”


687. “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” —Denis Waitley


688. “Good haul this year. Thanks for the Broom Compass, it’s excellent, beats Hermione’s — she’s got me a homework planner —” – Ron, Order of the Phoenix


689. “Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, it’s unplanned, it’s full of surprises.” ~ Erma Bombeck


690. Spending a lifetime with you will never be enough for me. I wish I could spend countless lifetimes with you for infinity. Since I only have the one I plan on spending every waking moment being grateful that I am bathed in the love of such a superb man.


691. “You have to be willing to give up the life you planned, and instead, greet the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell


692. “Just because my pregnancy was an unplanned one doesn’t mean my child was any less wanted, wished, or loved than the children who were planned. Either way, all children are gifts from God.” — Unknown


693. “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


694. “I used to be a big planner and had to have things figured out ahead of time, but I’m learning to love living in the moment. Last night, I called my friend up randomly and said, ‘Where are you? I want to come see you!’ It’s not a new version of me. I’m just embracing it more.” ~ Lily Collins


695. “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.


696. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” -- Joseph Campbell


697. “Speaking from my personal experiences, setting goals, along with a detailed action plan, has actually changed my life from one cast in frustration to one of purpose.” ― Catherine Pulsifer, author


698. “Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.” — Catherine Jones


699. “[What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] … It’s his job to take risks into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won’t, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.” ~ William Forsyth Sharpe


700. “My birthday is not just a date on the calendar, it’s a reminder of how far I’ve come and how much further I plan to go.” – Unknown

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