Busy Quotes

When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

They call it business because it does not become successful by a person's idleness. Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Busy is good because it showsyou’re alive.

~ Alison G. Bailey

Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived... Go, take up your real self!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God... He is working hardly on our prayers... Don't be afraid!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t stretch your neck to see who is not doing it; you can do it better! Don’t turn to watch whoever is watching you; everybody is busily watching over his own actions at hand! Go, make your own real; do at the right time. The right time is now; so do it now!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.

~ Hillary Depiano

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

~ Mark Buchanan

We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (...) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.

~ Al Cash

Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're ‘failing’.

~ Oli Anderson

People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.

~ Steven Magee

How come I have too many things to do all the time...??

~ Hiroko Sakai

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All that I knew were the mist-covered mountainsand sweet white blossoms of mountain applesthat grew in the valleys of my province.But I had been gone over six yearsbusy with studies in the Heavenly Cityempty and thin despite my work.I showed my verses to an older poetwho told me a truth I longed to believe:all knowledge is futile and barrenwhich does not open the love of your friends.

~ Jim Chapson

Busyness chokes deep thinking.

~ Todd Stocker

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

~ Mercedes M. Yardley

I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

~ Mark Slouka

The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn’t really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.

~ Evan Sutter

When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

~ Katelyn S. Bolds

Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

~ Daniel Willey

We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don’t have time to live.

~ Daniel Willey

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

~ Douglas B. Reeves

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

~ Thomas A. Edison

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

~ Jack Kornfield

I've heard it said, If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

~ Craig Groeschel

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

~ Craig Groeschel

What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?

~ Mitch Albom

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Why is it, that no matter how busy we are, we still find time to worry?

~ P.k. Shaw

Busy in a bus or lacking luck you poke to pluck a pick-up truck. Utterly shocked you choke in the lock and check if you chuck a buck or if you are stuck in the muck. So you should lurk in a day like this in such a murky lucky way. In a day when you don't know if you laugh or cry... Errands wait for those who are late in the busiest day.Such day that defies all your senses and makes you want to fly... To fly away!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

If I keep myself busy I don't know how lonely I am. I only know how busy I am.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

~ Debasish Mridha

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

~ Wess Stafford

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

~ Nigel Cumberland