Planned Quotes

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

Life, Design, Someone

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

Life, Waiting, Accept

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

Life, Waiting, Willing

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics, Nothing, Happens

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. 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.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Political, After

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

Great, Done, Small

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander Hamilton

Men, May, Often

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin

Life, Chance, Days

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Age, Great, Past

Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.
Martina McBride

Faith, Yourself, Heart

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.
Robert Orben

God, Used, Concept

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
Sachin Tendulkar

Help, Happen, Middle

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Neil Armstrong

Put, Anyone, Role

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.
Willie Nelson

God, Knowledge, Person

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
Lynn Redgrave

Life, Death, Future

I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
Scott Adams

Fear, Long, Frustrated

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
Eric Cantona

Career, United, Top

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
David Hockney

Done, Spring, Wonderful

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
Camille Paglia

Art, Boring, Why

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
Robert Pattinson

Thought, Play, Old

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

Before, Wanted, Child

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
Erykah Badu

Success, Happen, Knew

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.
Michael W. Smith

God, Big, Stuff

When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.
Jenny McCarthy

Time, Son, Talk

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
Walt Kelly

Good, Reality, Done

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne

Life, Morning, Mean

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!
Danica McKellar

School, Fun, Film

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
Michelle Malkin

Religion, War, Allah

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