PLANS/IDEALS

Don’t lose sight of good planning and insight. Hang on to them, for they fill you with life and bring you honor and respect.

Proverbs 3:21–22

We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps. Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed. The Lord has made everything for his own purposes.

Proverbs 16:9, 3–4

The plans of the godly are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

Proverbs 12:5

To awake each morning with a smile brightening my face;

To greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains;

To approach my work with a clean mind;

To hold ever before me, even in the doing of the little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working;

To meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart;

To be gentle and kind, and courteous through all the hours;

To approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done—

This is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

Thomas Dekk

Long-range purposes keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.

Goals: write them down; hang them up; and with God’s help, watch them happen!

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.

Ideals may be beyond our reach but never beyond our fondest hopes.

Those who have a “why” to live, can bear with almost any “how.”

Viktor Frankl

If you are satisfied with yourself, you had better change your ideals.

Clear definition of goals is the key to success.

Edison Montgomery

It’s a sad fact that many politicians are more concerned about deals than ideals.

Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you.