Welcome to Plan Quotes, a curated collection of insightful and inspiring quotes to ignite your passion for planning and organization. Whether you’re a seasoned strategist or just beginning your journey into the world of planning, these words of wisdom offer guidance, motivation, and perspective. Planning is not merely a task; it’s a mindset, a skillset, and a lifestyle that empowers individuals to shape their future with intentionality and purpose.
In a world filled with constant change and uncertainty, the ability to plan effectively becomes a cornerstone of success. From business strategies to personal goals, from project management to daily routines, the art of planning enables us to navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and manifest our aspirations. Through these quotes, we aim to celebrate the importance of planning while providing you with the fuel to drive your ambitions forward. So, dive in, explore, and let these quotes serve as your guiding light on the path to achievement and fulfillment.
Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no ‘plan B’ because there is no ‘planet B.’ Ban Ki-moon
Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some. Jocko Willink
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. Alexis Carrel
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. Charles Eames
More is not better. Better is better. You don’t need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don’t need more stuff; you need stuff you’ll actually use. Alex Steffen
If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you’ve already retired. Marv Levy
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. Eleanor Roosevelt
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
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar
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
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. Stephen Covey
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company. Elon Musk
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. Peter Marshall
Your heart and your instincts are far more reliable than your brain. When you follow your heart, you can be sure you won’t regret it later. Even if you calculate your every move, it’s not like life ever goes according to plan. Nithya Menen
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. Louis L’Amour
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. Yasser Arafat
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! Russell M. Nelson
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. Paul Valery
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. John C. Maxwell
Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together. Alan Mulally
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I’m gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. Joan Rivers
The future will take care of itself. My plans have fallen flat. Nothing that I planned has worked for me so far. So I don’t plan anymore. I keep short-term plans. Juhi Chawla
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. Thomas S. Monson
You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals. Henry Sy
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. Jim Mattis
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
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. Lana Del Rey
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let’s learn from history and take a look at other infamous socialist central-planning experiments like China’s Great Leap Forward or the Soviet Union’s Five-Year Plan. Like those two disasters, the Green New Deal would cripple our country and sacrifice Americans on the altar of environmental extremism. Lauren Boebert
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus
I’m just doing the only thing I know how to do. There was never a plan B. G-Eazy
To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way. Eliud Kipchoge
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan. Jason Reynolds
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment. Mahatma Gandhi
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. Fidel Castro
You’ve got to eat while you dream. You’ve got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. Jack Welch
Life is a weird thing because it puts roadblocks in front of you, sometimes you gotta go through it, sometimes you gotta go around it, sometimes you gotta take a pause and look back at what you’re gonna do, have a plan. Jamal Murray
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
My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut. Toni Collette
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act! Alfred A. Montapert
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. Earl Nightingale
The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens. Dennis Miller
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
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
I do not make resolutions for New Year, but visualise and plan things. Amala Akkineni
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. Margaret Thatcher
I always told myself never to have a plan B – I feel like that’s also one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing now, because I just never really rested until I got here. Dua Lipa
Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed. Billy Graham
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes. Agatha Christie
You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke
There’s always going to be the circumstances you can’t plan for. There’s always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity. Jason Silva
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. George Washington
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Victor Hugo
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist – these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives. James Heckman
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That’s my plan. Jack Black
Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people! Dove Cameron
I’m anything but a small-town girl. I have big, big dreams, and I plan on making them happen. Farrah Abraham
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
What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can’t wing it. I can’t get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it’s a career, family, life – you have to plan it out. Ice Cube
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand. Euripides
If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal. Nipsey Hussle
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. David Brainerd
Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed. T. B. Joshua
I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death. Stella Young
You never know the plan. You never know what’s going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time. Morgan Wallen
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. Charles Stanley
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Saint Augustine
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity. Jay Shetty
The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice. Huda Kattan
Have a bias toward 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
Honestly I knew from the very youngest age that I was going to play football, then coach, then die. I never thought about a deviation from that plan. Jim Harbaugh
I will never say never. If it is God’s plan, it will surely happen. Liz Mitchell
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Abraham Maslow
Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn’t be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn’t a life plan. Karen Finerman
When things are not going according to plan, you show off, it’s natural. Arjun Mathur
Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later. Walter Reisch
I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me. Nimrat Kaur
Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen. Taylor Swift
Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the world. I just need air and a mic. Travis Scott
Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best. Marilu Henner
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong. Lewis Howes
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. Leonard Bernstein
Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God’s divine plan for your life. Don’t run from it. Iman
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill
Anyone who’s married to Mariah Carey – I’m pretty sure – doesn’t have a great sense of humor. I mean, let’s be honest: she’s ridiculous. What is her game plan? Chelsea Handler
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth. Bill Bryson
Failing to plan is planning to fail. Alan Lakein
Without a plan, there’s no attack. Without attack, no victory. Curtis Armstrong
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
First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it. Nick Saban
I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn’t believe in myself. Kali Uchis
Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation. George Foreman
