Spontaneous Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old spontaneous quotes, spontaneous sayings, and spontaneous proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next though one rapidly learns to expect the worst. Georgette Heyer
You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself. Abigail Biddinger
A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal. Marty Rubin
I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn. Marty Rubin
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion; the mind that grows could not predict the time, the means, the mode of that spontaneity; God enters by a private door into every individual. Jehiel Keeler Hoyt
Well-organized people often find that spontaneous people are fun to be around. Barbara A. Olevitch
Spontaneous people often find that well-organized people can contribute a lot toward making things safer and more secure. Barbara A. Olevitch
Something just flashes into your mind, so exciting, and you must out with it. If you stop to think it over, you spoil it all. Lucy Maud Montgomery
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. Emma Austen
Spontaneity is not mere impulse ... undeliberated behavior and feeling.... Spontaneity is behavior, feeling and thought that is free of external constraint, of imposed restriction ... not an uncontrolled effluvium of passion and action.... Insofar as the individual removes the fetters of domination that have stifled her or his self-activity, she or he is acting, feeling and thinking spontaneously. Maurice Brinton
I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life. J. A. Redmerski