Top 88 Life To Do List Quotes
#1. We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#2. I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.
Susan Minot
#3. What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
#4. Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.
J.K. Rowling
#5. I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
Diana Ross
#6. My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
#7. There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
Samuel Larsen
#8. Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing and how your life will improve by becoming fitter.
Jillian Michaels
#9. You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you'll wake up one day realizing your life's passed you by and you've got a list of stuff you've never gotten to do.
Charlie Donlea
#10. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life. Instead, ask My Spirit to guide you moment by moment.
Sarah Young
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.
Lindsey Kelk
#14. Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
Tony Horton
#15. My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.
Oona Chaplin
#16. Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.
Laura Vanderkam
#17. Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.
Ellen Hopkins
#18. I nodded. It was his checklist. Every time we were together we went through this. He ran down his list of people, events, even actual objects that were in my life.
A.M. Homes
#19. Rename your "To-Do" list to your "Opportunities" list. Each day is a treasure chest filled with limitless opportunities; take joy in checking many off your list.
Steve Maraboli
#20. Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.
Don Johnson
#21. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
Mark Batterson
#22. I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!
Brad Paisley
#23. I've never wanted anything more in my life, if i died tomorrow, being with you, like this tonight, will have been the best night of my entire existence. And it's not because of a stupid bucket list; it's because i love you.
M. Leighton
#24. Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.
Steve Maraboli
#25. I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.
Dan Wells
#26. Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.
Peter McWilliams
#27. Once, I started listing off all the people that I truly cared about. When I got to number seven, Penelope told me I either needed to whittle down my list or stop making friends immediately. My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.
Rainbow Rowell
#28. Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.
Jennifer Brown
#29. ...having a list is all peaches and cream, as long as you remember that life usually gets in the way.
Julie Tilsner
#30. You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.
Ronald Burkle
#32. Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
Alanis Morissette
#34. It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.
Rutger Hauer
#35. But there are things I want to do before I die, a whole list that I know I probably won't get to, but I'm sure as hell going to try.
Julie Kagawa
#36. Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'
John Wooden
#37. Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.
Tom Hodgkinson
#38. Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#39. A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish ... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick DeWitt
#40. Life without love is like a bird without feathers. Life without love is like a butterfly without wings it's the saddest of things.
"In this life I can live without many things love is not on that list
Charles W. Warner
#42. Every day of my life I have to add another name to the list of people who p*ss me off
Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes
Bill Watterson
#43. Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#44. It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's list.
Matt Shea
#45. I'm biding my time until my real life kicks in."
"How will you know when that happens?"
"It will be when I no longer have a list of things I've never done.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#46. The primary challenge for any aspiring public office bearer is to have a well-defined cause and diligently represent that cause until a significant impact is witnessed. Adhering to value-based leadership principles must be at the top of the priority list for public office aspirants.
Archibald Marwizi
#47. If I knew I was going to die, I'd do the things on my life list. Why not do them now?
Todd Stocker
#48. It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.
Mike Davies
#49. A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.
Helen Andelin
#50. The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
Thomas Keneally
#51. Life is full of drama, competition, difficulties, and God knows what else. But that shouldn't rule out the love, happiness and joy we feel by being around the things we love and the people who love us.
Zainab T. Khan
#52. I'm grateful for the experiences I've accumulated. Of course, there are certain things you wish were not on anyone's list of life experiences, but it's a life. It's a good life. And I like what's there.
Renee Zellweger
#53. Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.
Victoria Moran
#54. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?
Dorothy Gilman
#55. One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature
Guido Von List
#56. When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.
Arianna Huffington
#57. Education has been a really big part of my life. I went to an all-girls school for most of my life, and the curriculum was definitely at the top of your list.
Holland Roden
#58. Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.
Archibald Marwizi
#59. What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#60. I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
Deborah Norville
#61. No, you just keep crashing my life. Look - " I said, and Al grunted.
"Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.
Kim Harrison
#62. Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.
Tim O'Brien
#63. It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.
Regina Brett
#64. I am most thankful for what I don't have, for had my life's wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God's treasures.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#65. My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
Rachael Ray
#66. Let me tell you, the life of a C list celebrity is pretty sweet. If I want to go to an Applebee's, all I have to do is, literally, walk in the door. They seat me as soon as the other people ahead of me are seated.
Michael Ian Black
#67. Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.
Oprah Winfrey
#68. Everyone who's born has a mysterious life path to follow. We must live to find that one reason to live
Suchet Chaturvedi
#69. I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.
Pat Robertson
#70. Make a list of things you like doing and then do them
Moonish Sood
#71. We look for happiness in every other thing and being around us. We live in an "if and then" model of happiness. If that happens, then I will be happy. This list of "if and then" never finishes, and we continue through our entire life learning how to be unhappy.
Rakesh Sethi
#73. That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
Angelina Jolie
#74. I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.
Dick Dale
#75. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.
Ned Rorem
#76. Life-change list Number Five: Don't forget the care and feeding of friends.
Kaira Rouda
#77. I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.
Madeleine Albright
#78. It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.
Gene Edwards
#79. 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
#80. Last thought: If I learned anything from the past few months, it is that things don't always go as we plan and that's OK. It's how we handle what life throws at us and who is there to support us in the end. On that note, today's to-do list: You never know THE END
Melissa Baldwin
#81. Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.
Susan Jeffers
#83. If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
Benjamin Carson
#84. What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.
Joe Vitale
#85. Emptying yourself of your best work isn't just about checking off tasks on your to-do list; it's about making steady, critical progress each day on the projects that matter, in all areas of life.
Todd Henry
#86. A successful day is one in which you have stayed in touch with Me, even if many things remain undone at the end of the day. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life.
Sarah Young
#87. I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
Viggo Mortensen
#88. I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write
Ellie Rose McKee
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