Top 98 Best Plans Quotes
#1. Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.
Lemony Snicket
#2. the very best plans were made like an onion, with layer upon layer protecting the heart.
S.J.A. Turney
#3. The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
Robert Burns
#4. I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.
Tony Dungy
#6. And I'm the only one with a plan," Fitz reminded them.
"Hey- I've got plans," Keefe argued.
"Plans that don't involve tormenting Dame Alina," Fitz clarified.
"But those are always the best plans!
Shannon Messenger
#7. Funny how a nice ass, firm pecs, and a great smile could thwart a woman's best plans.
Karina Halle
#9. The best plans have a way of falling apart without warning.
Maggi Myers
#10. Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.
Michael Anthony
#11. Find out what you like doing best and get somebody to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn
#13. The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.
Michael R. Phillips
#14. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
Sun Tzu
#15. Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life.
Auliq Ice
#16. I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
J.K. Rowling
#17. The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.
Yvonne Prinz
#18. Anyone can lead when the plan is working. The best lead when the plan falls apart.
Robin Sharma
#19. Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.
Anna Quindlen
#20. It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.
Tracey Porter
#21. Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.
Danny Cipriani
#22. You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.
Charles Williams
#23. He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
Herodotus
#24. The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.
Jon Stewart
#25. No one is that valuable to plan your future based upon them, because in some point every loyal individual will stab you in the back or in the best situation will just leave you. People have expiration dates. The ones who stay longer become more dangerous.
Kambiz Shabankareh
#27. You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.
Michael Schur
#28. The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.
Susan Block
#29. We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)
Kristina Riggle
#30. Sometimes all our plans for life go to shit. You end up doing something you never dreamed of and you know what you do? You make the best out of it you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it.
Nichole Chase
#32. We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
Anthony Lewis
#33. The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.
Ronald Fisher
#34. The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
Robert Burns
#35. Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah ...
J.R. Ward
#36. The best plan is only a plan ... unless it degerates into work.
Peter Drucker
#37. Make plans at night and the dawn is the best time to start implementing these plans!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin your best laid plans.
Tina Fey
#39. To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.
Helen Andelin
#40. For some reason we human beings seem to learn best how to love when we're a bit broken, when our plans fall apart, when our myths of our self-sufficiency and goodness and safety are shattered.
Kathleen Norris
#41. I know that God loves you. And that He's not interested in obeying your plans. He's interested in giving you the best. And all you need to do is believe that. When you know God loves you, then faith is simply the expectation that God will show up, that love in hand.
Susan May Warren
#42. I came to understand that we do not change gradually, peacefully, over time, but that we undergo sudden upheavals that overthrow our best-laid plans, change our character and redesign the shape of our life, all in the matter of moments.
Catherine Delors
#43. So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.
Susan May Warren
#44. You could only anticipate certain scenarios and prepare to deal with each. Success came to those who best reacted as the unexpected occurred in discordance with those plans.
Alex Albrinck
#45. The best days are the days that aren't planned.
Marty Rubin
#46. The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans ... as they compete for the best and brightest workforce.
Jerry Jasinowski
#47. In life, we tend to get what we expect. Start expecting the best. Since life is a do-it-to-yourself project, why not believe in miracles? You have the freedom of choice. Why not expect miracles to happen in your life? Make plans, work hard and expect miracles. Why? Because you can.
Mark LaMoure
#48. Desires and wishes don't lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.
Roopleen
#49. Fighting and resisting the timing of God is equivalent to fighting and resisting His will for our lives. God is working, often in ways we cannot see, to bring His plans to pass in our lives in the best possible ways. We simply need to trust Him as we wait for the arrival of our dreams.
Joyce Meyer
#50. I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children.
Bill Murray
#51. Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford II
#52. Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.
Lemony Snicket
#53. Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
Albert Hadley
#56. No matter what other plans are out there, this is the best plan.
Tom McMillan
#57. When things go awry, if they are mostly an inconvenience to you or a threat to your ego, instead of getting furious, can you laugh?
Sometimes the even the best-laid plans, the most carefully planned events can turn out quite differently than planned.
James Martin
#58. I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.
Tina Fey
#59. The devil fools with the best laid plans.
Neil Young
#60. It was always best to have contingency plans, and plans within plans.
Travis Heermann
#61. I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#62. 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!
Leslie W.P. Garland
#63. The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much ...
Paula Nelson
#64. It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.
Rian Johnson
#65. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.
Ruskin Bond
#66. I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx
#67. Every plan I have is the best plan in the room.
Charlie Sheen
#68. That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Michael Johnson
#69. Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field.
Inge Ignatia De Waard
#70. These what-if equations have kept her life static since adolescence. And if life proves one thing, it's that the best laid plans don't necessarily lead to the best results.
Nick Alexander
#71. That plans, however well-intentioned, were ultimately irrelevant? That we had to learn to adapt, and the best-case scenario was finding a partner who was willing to adapt alongside us?
Chloe Neill
#72. A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God's plans.
Jan Guillou
#73. Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best - for YOU - and so is your personality. You're so worth it
Nancy Rue
#74. I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.
Katherine Hannigan
#75. If you don't tell people your plans they can't follow along." "They don't follow along anyway," Tyler said. "Most of them do their level best to piss in your well just to piss in your well.
John Ringo
#76. Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
George Washington Carver
#77. Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
Emile M. Cioran
#78. Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another
Kirsten Beyer
#79. Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#80. With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304)
Boyd K. Packer
#81. Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
Colin Powell
#82. Don't say it's over
'Cause that's the worst news I could hear I swear that I will
Do my best to be here just the way you like it
Even though it's hard to hide
Push my feelings all aside
I will rearrange my plans and change for you. (-The Avett Brothers)
Colleen Hoover
#83. To assume that I can even begin to chart a 'straight' path is probably the best way I can take myself 'straight' to the very place I don't want to go.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. Carefully laid plans aren't always the best. Sometimes Plan B is the real dream come true.
S.J.D. Peterson
#85. If we do our best, and things do not unfold according to our plans, trust that everything has happened for your highest good.
Robin S. Sharma
#86. There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.
Auliq Ice
#87. They say the best laid plans often go a lie, Because no matter how detailed the preparation, A plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To do into the plan failure and the perpetrator along with it.
Emily Thorne
#88. Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.
Terence McKenna
#89. You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men ... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.
Tobin Bell
#90. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Robert Burns
#91. ... the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next best time to plant a tree is now.
Carlos Acosta
#92. We all wish something or other in our life in our own way, but God have other plans and they are best for us to realize our dream and destiny. All we need is to have faith in him always and never to lose hope.
Pravin Agarwal
#93. Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.
Patrick Carman
#94. Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#95. I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.
Brent Spiner
#97. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
Robert Burns
#98. But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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