Top 100 Our Plans Quotes
#1. God's purpose is more important than our plans.
Myles Munroe
#2. In order to achieve escape velocity, we must learn to keep our own counsel, to move silently among doubters, to voice our plans only among our allies, and to name our allies accurately.
Julia Cameron
#3. If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
Pat Morley
#5. We have to let go of our plans if we are to become the person we are meant to be.
Joseph Campbell
#6. We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.
Ellen Tauscher
#7. 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
#10. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.
Rebecca Solnit
#11. Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass
#12. In life we have to size up the chances and calculate the possible risks and our ability to deal with them and then make our plans accordingly.
Freya North
#13. Our trees
were nuns at the edge of our plans, praying for us
Sue Goyette
#14. Perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them. Ha! A small matter.
Heinrich Himmler
#15. The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.
Croft M. Pentz
#16. In fiction, every treachery and setback appears to serve some end: the characters learn and grow and come into their own. In life, it is not always clear that the hijacking of our plans is quite so provident or benign.
Azar Nafisi
#17. We've made mistakes,
But we've made good friends too.
Remember all the nights we spent with them?
And all our plans,
Who says they can't come true?
Tonight's another chance to start again.
It's just another New Year's Eve,
Another night like all the rest.
Barry Manilow
#18. We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.
Ivan Konev
#19. 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
#20. If you're a disheveled, easily distracted person, it's always scary when someone asks what your plan is for the day. We don't know our plans.
Distracted people make plans in transit.
Lisa Smartt
#21. My little girl, five years old already. All our plans will one day come and go, won't they?
M.A. Larson
#22. However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
Hideki Tojo
#23. Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I'd ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.
Stuart Dybek
#25. Siemens' health care IT assets provide additional scale, R&D, an impressive client base, and knowledgeable and experienced associates who will help Cerner achieve our plans for the next decade.
Neal Patterson
#26. 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
#27. Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations.
Eric Metaxas
#29. Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
Zack Snyder
#30. God triumphs on the ruins of our plans'. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which, we've never dreamed. Let's trust that that is what is happening here for each of us.
Anne Rice
#31. Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them.
John Patrick Hickey
#32. We need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.
Bob Goff
#33. Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.
Stacey T. Hunt
#34. We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
Vance Havner
#35. St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often," he said. " 'God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.' And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we've never dreamed.
Anne Rice
#36. And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.
George W. Bush
#37. I had given Holmes this wedding as a gift-only to have him turn around and hand it back to me tenfold. And now his two oldest friends in all the world had conspired against our plans, casually rendering our feeble attempts at a gift into solid gold.
Laurie R. King
#38. There is no hate without fear [...]. Hate is fear crystallized, fear objectified. We hate what threatens our selves, our dreams, our plans, our freedom, our place in the world, our place in the hearts of the people we love. We fear first. Then we hate.
Paulina Simons
#39. Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.
Arthur Balfour
#41. We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
Charles R. Schwab
#43. It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.
David Cameron
#44. You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded.
Edward Everett Hale
#45. In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
Nizami Ganjavi
#47. Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
Shelley Duvall
#48. Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.
Elizabeth Scott
#49. 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
#50. I was thinking about how all of us sometimes think our plans, our destinies, have come to an end or a standstill, but they don't; our destinies keep going. It's just that we can't, like, see it, because we can't see the big picture to know it.
Sarah Holman
#51. Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about.
James Hudson Taylor
#52. Living loved, we relax our expectations, our efforts, our strivings, our rules, our spine, our breath, our plans, our job descriptions and checklists; we step off the treadmill of the world and the treadmill of religious performance. We are not the authors of our redemption.
Sarah Bessey
#53. Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.
M. Craig Barnes
#54. Purpose
Unifies us:
It focuses our dreams,
Guides our plans,
Strengthens our efforts.
Purpose
Defines us,
Shapes us,
And offers us
Greatness.
Octavia E. Butler
#55. Funny, how we try to plan for things, and anticipate perfect moments, but then life comes and punches our plans in the mouth, leaving us with big fat lips.
Lauren Blakely
#56. In this universe if we're lucky, we will live in our children's stories, their tales that will turn us to legend, some absurd truth that has nothing to do with our plans,
our meticulous records. No matter what stories we discard or keep, they will give us a life we cannot imagine.
Jeanne Lohmann
#57. God may sometimes laugh at our plans. But if they are based on a Heavenly and eternal perspective, He will always support us. On His timetable, not ours.
Paul Turk
#58. We must change our way of thinking, correct our plans and envision new ways of attaining our goals
Sunday Adelaja
#59. WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.
Antonio R. Damasio
#60. Everything becomes beautiful in our lives when our plans are in alignment with the plans of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#61. We make our plans, but God directs our steps.
Rachel Hauck
#62. Being transparent about our plans enables us to get better feedback
Shantanu Narayen
#63. There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.
Jane Jacobs
#64. 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
#65. God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.
Euginia Herlihy
#66. The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.
Tony Evans
#67. Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God. Linux helped ...
Janette Oke
#68. He shrugs. We were young back then and swept up in the excitement that we could throw out the old ways and rebuild the world. I'm older now and understand. Our plans weren't thorough enough back then. This time they are.
Richard Kadrey
#69. It is indeed natural to us to wish and to plan, and it is merciful in the Lord to disappoint our plans, and to cross our wishes. For we cannot be safe, much less happy, but in proportion as we are weaned from our own wills, and made simply desirous of being directed by his guidance.
John Newton
#70. We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
Laurie Anderson
#71. When we foolishly believe that our ways, our opinions, our plans somehow have jurisdiction over the sovereign will of the Creator of the universe, we will always end up in one place: the pigpen.
Kasey Van Norman
#72. Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We should thus have the advantage of setting right what is wrong, and restoring what is destroyed.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).
Albert C. Barnes
#74. We have to release our plans to realize God's greater purpose
Mandy Hale
#75. Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.
Ellen J. Barrier
#76. Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
Alveda King
#77. First thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don't think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn't any plans on sharing our bed.
Shannon Hale
#78. The word Christ uses for "life" is the word psyche - the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life - those are the things that will actually destroy us.
John Eldredge
#79. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.
Vladimir Sorokin
#80. God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation
Sunday Adelaja
#81. What's going on?" he demanded.
"The usual, old man," I replied cheerily. "Danger, insane plans ... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.
Richelle Mead
#82. Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.
Jack Germond
#83. Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.
Beth Moore
#84. 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
#85. The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#86. We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both short- and long-term relief to our nation's agricultural producers. While we believe long-term solutions are essential, the current situation demands a more immediate response.
Mel Carnahan
#87. We begin to make the plan known to our children when we hold tight to the iron rod ourselves.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#88. We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God's plans.
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.
'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.
A. Ashley Straker
#90. People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.
Robyn Donald
#91. But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?
Mark Batterson
#92. What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.
Holly Sprink
#93. We just have to go after our game plan.
Eli Manning
#94. If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.
Jim Cymbala
#95. May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your plans. 5 May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
Anonymous
#96. Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times - for all the right reasons - but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#98. I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.
William J. Clinton
#99. Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process ...
Tom Ridge
#100. Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
Jack Kornfield
