96 Bucket List Quotes

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Famous Bucket List Quotes

My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere. — Patrick Stump

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. - Susan Sontag

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag

Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true. — Brittany Maynard

My dream is to do things until 'I have no regrets' — Lee Taemin

Go on a few wild and crazy adventures that you'll be excited to tell your kids about someday. — Sahil Bloom

Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things. — Gary Jennings

Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life. — Ryan Blair

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.' — Tom Preston-Werner

The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable. — Jared Kushner

Enjoy life, it has an expiration date — Zayn Malik

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. — Tony Robbins

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream. — Ray Bradbury

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.' — Rosario Dawson

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible? — Dale Carnegie

Short Bucket List Quotes

  • My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. — Leonard Ravenhill
  • Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
  • If you want to do amazing things with your life. — Jeb Corliss
  • It's kind of fun to do the impossible. — Walt Disney
  • Adventure is worthwhile. — Aesop
  • Surround yourself with people who make you better and have fun before the clock runs out. — Joe Gatto
  • The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. — Oprah Winfrey
  • I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. — Stephen Hawking
  • Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper. — Joe Hart
  • Life- ride it until the wheels fall off. — Martin Lawrence

Bucket List Image Quotes

Bucket list quote I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

To Do List Quotes

Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil. — Chuck Smith

On their deathbeds, people don’t think about their work or their life experiences or the items remaining on their to-do list. They think about love and family. — Rick Rubin

You know how some people are passionate about bodybuilding or fashion or rock climbing or poetry? Productivity geeks are passionate about crossing items off their to-do list so it’s sort of the same except infinitely sadder. — Oliver Burkeman

Bucket list quote Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.

I don't know if I'm living sometimes or if I'm doing a to-do list. — Theo Von

I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list. — Todd Blackledge

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. — Dorothy Parker

Bucket list quote I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
I was born with a reading list I will never finish.

I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list. — Michelle Obama

Do you ever just add things you’ve already done to your to-do list, then cross them over right away to feel more productive? Me neither. — PewDiePie

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list. — Giuliana Rancic

When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary. — Connie Schultz

How To List Quotes

So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list. — Danica Patrick

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list. — Edward Tufte

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it? — Ellen Goodman

Bucket list quote Your inbox is a to-do list other people can write on. Focus on your own to-do list. Stay on the offe
Your inbox is a to-do list other people can write on. Focus on your own to-do list. Stay on the offensive.

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were. — Alastair Campbell

There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. — Roger Ebert

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it. — Marc Jacobs

Bucket list quote A child's mind is not a bucket to fill, but a fire to ignite.
A child's mind is not a bucket to fill, but a fire to ignite.

Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized. — Anil Dash

That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need? — Kamila Shamsie

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side. — Phyllis Mcginley

Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing. — Johnny Depp

List Quotes

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I. — Henry VIII of England

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205. — Joseph McCarthy

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

Bucket list quote Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke e
Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. — Robert Orben

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. - Al Capone

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. — Al Capone

The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy

Bucket list quote To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for y
To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for your personal success and business goals. Start writing down aspirations you don’t need to get done right now and use as monthly moonshot goals. I prefer to call this a “not-yet-list.” It helps keep your “to-do-list” shorter without losing sight of a great idea. Eventually items from the not-yet-list move to the to-do-list.

This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox. — Anthony Jeselnik

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists. — D. A. Carson

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies. — Harry Markowitz

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. — Lewis Thomas

Bucket Quotes

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. — Winston Churchill

When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse. — Frank Abagnale

Bucket list quote Social media isn't about technology. It's about relationships. 3 things you can do today: 1. Spend 5
Social media isn't about technology. It's about relationships. 3 things you can do today: 1. Spend 5 minutes getting interested in someone on social media, rather than trying to get them interested in you.2. Post it forward e.g. list three people whom you admire. 3. Network before you need your network.

To stay like a ball in a bucket. — Romanian Proverbs

As you time-bucket your life, you parcel out a single list of experiences into different and distinct time sections of your life. — Bill Perkins

What can you do with a good cow that gives a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket over? — Yiddish Proverbs

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. — William Butler Yeats

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. — Percy Ross

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. — Ambrose Bierce

A house without a woman is like a fire without a bucket. — Bulgarian Proverbs

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More Bucket List Quotes

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you. — Morgan Freeman

My way of discovering of what I like was to create a restaurant list and eat my way through it, and I call it my 'inner fat girl bucket list.' — Sayings

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1. — Matt Damon

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them. — Ryan Tedder

On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter. — Gabriel Macht

Israel was always on my bucket list, it was always one of those places that you check off and move onto the next place, but I'm never going to check Israel off my list. It's a place I'm always going to want to come back to. — Lana Parrilla

We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round. — Jack Nicholson

I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.' — Emma Stone

I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car. — Neil Gaiman

One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well. — Justin Zackham

I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely. — Morena Baccarin

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this. — Melissa Etheridge

My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1. — Beano Cook

I don't need a president with a bucket list! — Chris Rock

The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. — Roger Ebert

He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool. — Derek Landy

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever. — Lily Collins

Coming up with the bucket list is the easy part, but ticking off the list is the challenge. I love a good challenge, which is why I strongly advise everyone to come up with a bucket list. It doesn't have to contain out of this world tasks. But once you have written down the list, screw it, just do it! — Richard Branson

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well. — Ian Bremmer

I have an opportunity to give a voice to those who have no voice. Even though film production wasn't a bucket list item for my life, what I have been passionate about is creating change and impacting society - especially bringing conversations forward on formerly taboo subjects. — Julie Smolyansky

I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list. — Kacey Musgraves

I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places. — Gabrielle Aplin

For me, a lot of these actors are new. For me, I only worked with Finn Whittrock and Michael Chiklis. So a lot of these actors are people I've been a huge fan of for years and are bucket-list actors for me to get to work with. It's pretty surreal now getting to step into scenes with them.You all get to find your characters together. — Matt Bomer

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot. — Miranda Hart

If you're a redneck, you have that blood flowing through your veins. That's almost on the bucket list, to hear "Freebird" live. — Jeff Foxworthy

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list. — Ilona Andrews

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine. — Alison Sweeney

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