Quotes About Plans For The Future

#1. It's all a risk. Always. That's not true, actually. The only exception: it's a certainty that there's risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That's because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.

Seth Godin

#2. The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it - freedom, not reason - to pursue his plans for the future.

Thomas Ligotti

#4. Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.

Henry Gee

#5. When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. At such moments one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince

Leo Tolstoy

#6. But how can I learn to live in a world that doesn't include my brother? All my life, I've always been my brother's sister; it's part of my identity, part of who I am. My brother is part of my past; we share a common history. And we had plans for the future.

T.J. Wray

#7. Likewise, the other person has a right to know us accurately, to consider the relationship and make plans for the future based on facts, not fantasies or projections.

Harriet Lerner

#8. U.S. companies are letting cash pile up on their balance sheets without investing in new projects because they don't have any concrete plans for the future.

Peter Thiel

#9. One day you're young with all your fine plans for the future. The next you're in the future and it doesn't look at all the way you thought it would.

Amanda Quick

#10. 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

#11. What really ruins our characters is the fact that none of us looks back over his life. We think about what we are going to do, and only rarely of that, and fail to think about what we have done, yet any plans for the future are dependent on the past.

Seneca.

#12. At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

Dashiell Hammett

#14. The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Nigella Lawson

#16. I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

Peter James

#17. It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone ... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

#18. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.

Onyi Anyado

#19. Sometimes stop walking, look back at your life, detect your errors, and make new plans for the future where there exists no place for these errors!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. - Alan Watts1 When

Emma Seppala

#21. 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

#22. People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.

Priscilla Presley

#24. I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

Scott Walker

#25. Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

George Bernard Shaw

#26. The future is for everyone, not far, it's just tomorrow.

Auliq Ice

#27. Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

Reid Hoffman

#28. Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, " Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE.

Anonymous

#29. The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

Hermann Hesse

#30. Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#31. The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

Vladimir Putin

#32. If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

Susan Hill

#34. What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

Criss Jami

#35. I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11

Tony Dungy

#36. I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

Richard Simmons

#37. Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

Og Mandino

#38. Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams?

Pope Francis

#39. I fell silent after that. I didn't want to talk about such things anymore, at least today. My chest already hurt and I was trying to keep my mind calm. I didn't want to think of a future so bleak and dark. I had plans for my future and they didn't involve the world ending or society collapsing.

J.M. Northup

#40. It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact way you would wish to be paid.

Auliq Ice

#41. Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

Thomas Metzinger

#42. Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.

Seneca.

#43. We all rush through life torn between a desire for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who devotes his time to his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears for tomorrow. How

Seneca.

#44. To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature and to develop nice thoughts for better thinking.

Auliq Ice

#45. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)

Anonymous

#46. Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

Hyman George Rickover

#47. If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.

Carl Eckart

#48. I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

Dick Van Dyke

#49. Your dad's story is over. In six months or a year, this will be done for him. He won't be dealing with the consequences of what you choose to do now. You will. So you make this decision based on what you need.

Jason Schmidt

#50. W For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare [2] and not for evil, x to give you a future and a hope.

Anonymous

#51. During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

J.K. Rowling

#52. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

Saji Ijiyemi

#53. You are not listening to a word I am saying ... and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.

Oscar Wilde

#54. I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.

Sheryl Swoopes

#55. If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

Harry Browne

#56. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

#57. Negative people offer no hope to the person who wants to pursue their goal. They are a hinder to positive thinking and plans for a brighter future.

Ellen J. Barrier

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.

Auliq Ice

#62. I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in this school and she responds with detailed plans for her future life as an archaeologist or philosopher or - new, this - a veterinary surgeon.

William Boyd

#63. Children - their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must - that life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans for a tomorrow that will never be.

Andrew Levkoff

#64. Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.

Barbara Johnson

#65. 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

#66. You are destiny for greatness.
Your future is in the hands of the Lord.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. ... 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

#68. Listen Anna, if we don't believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there's no hope for us. We're going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

Doris Lessing

#69. I can't take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

Shannon A. Thompson

#70. An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

Jack Canfield