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 , Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“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

“One of the most painful realizations in life, is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along, that you were busy looking for somewhere else.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If I keep myself busy I don't know how lonely I am. I only know how busy I am.”
― Kate McGahan

“Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“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, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control

“Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Approaching the Start of Civil Exams

Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar
approaching the start of civil exams,
my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion
with books on syntax and poetic style.

All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains
and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples
that grew in the valleys of my province.

But I had been gone over six years
busy with studies in the Heavenly City
empty and thin despite my work.

I showed my verses to an older poet
who told me a truth I longed to believe:
all knowledge is futile and barren
which does not open the love of your friends.”
― Jim Chapson

“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

“There are two types of 'busy': 1)
Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“A little deed done very well is better than a mighty plan kept on paper, undone. Wishes don't change the world; it's actions that do this business!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives we do not take the steps and time necessary to be introspective.”
― Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

“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, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

“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, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We may not be able to stop satan from doing his business, but we can scheme to make his business to yield a loss! All things... I mean "all", "all things", "everything" is working for our good!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Bless you with the curse to remain busy always.”
― Amit Abraham

“Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.”
― Todd Stocker

“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, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“So remember when you're looking for trouble
That trouble is already busy with weaker men”
― Pete Townshend

“The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.”
― Nigel Cumberland, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living

“To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I dead each day when her call was busy elsewhere.”
― Atul Purohit, Love Vs Destiny . . .the strange game of life!

“These were all simple acts of obedience I missed. But not missed because I was unaware. They were missed because I was busy—caught in the rush of endless demands. And the rush makes us rebellious. I knew what to do and blatantly ignored it.

Ignoring God's leading doesn't seem like such a big deal in these cases. In the grand scheme of the world, how big a thing is it that I didn't pick up that cup? After all, how can I be sure it was really God?

I think a better question would be, How can I be sure it wasn't God?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

“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, ACross Tic

“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

“Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working