Top 100 Be Busy Quotes
#1. It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis
#2. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
Seneca The Younger
#3. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind
Anonymous
#4. It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
Stephen R. Covey
#5. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
John Sterling
#6. I love to be busy, and when I'm off the court, I do things I love.
Venus Williams
#7. When we are in Christ His goals are now our goals, and we are to be busy with his work on earth.
J. Aaron Gruben
#8. It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.
Melissa De La Cruz
#9. Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne
#10. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?
Rick Warren
#11. My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
Olivia Holt
#12. It is such an agreeable feeling to be busy with something one is only half-competent to do that nobody should criticize the dilettante for taking up an art he will never learn, or blame the artist who leaves the territory of his own art for the pleasure of trying himself in a neighbouring one.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. But I am not sure what this self is. For the moment I seem to be busy tearing down what I was.
Anais Nin
#14. So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends.
Daniel Goldin
#16. We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.
Wayne Huizenga
#17. I always want to be surprised and just see what's going to happen next. But definitely next is going to be busy, too.
Charice Pempengco
#18. If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.
Chael Sonnen
#19. You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'
Sendhil Mullainathan
#20. I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.
Rudy Vallee
#21. Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork ... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.
Elizabeth Bowen
#22. There is no time to be angry, always be busy with love.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.
Louis De Bernieres
#24. To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
Joseph Conrad
#25. I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.
Viola Davis
#26. I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.
Sean Hayes
#27. The forges of friendship, thought Angus, may be busy ones, but their dorrs are always open.
Alexander McCall Smith
#28. People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.
Dana Spiotta
#29. It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau
Brian P. Moran
#30. I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely ... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.
Darren Boyd
#31. It is not enough to be busy we must be productive. Everyone can account for every hour of the day but that does not mean anything was accomplished of value.
Randall Wright
#32. I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
Moby
#33. Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.
Tom Hodgkinson
#34. The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso
#35. A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.
Seneca.
#36. Thoreau said: "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about?
Anonymous
#37. Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted!
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#38. This place is going to be destroyed in the morning. The cleanup crew is going to be busy."
"You have a cleanup crew?"
"Yeah", he smiled, "We call them freshmen.
Jamie McGuire
#40. I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
Francois Truffaut
#42. I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
Steve Carell
#43. Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
#44. It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.
Ryan Merriman
#46. You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
Ovid
#47. If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.
Al-Ghazali
#48. To be busy is man's only happiness.
Mark Twain
#49. Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
Sam Neill
#50. We have got a CIA station just up the road - the consulate here in Hong Kong - and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.
Edward Snowden
#51. I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.
Eric Lange
#52. I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry needs. Children want to be assured that there are other things to do, important things; more important, on occasion, than they are.
Lionel Shriver
#53. You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.
Seth
#54. Always try to be busy with valuable activities otherwise invaluable activities will definitely try to be busy with you
Arya Vidhan
#57. Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he'll find our hearts closed and armed against him.
Cyprian
#58. I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Aisha Tyler
#59. I assumed he would be busy with some inflatable whore! Or did she round a corner to fast and bust a tit on her way here?
Jennifer Loren
#60. It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.
Alia Shawkat
#62. I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.
Carrie Preston
#63. I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when?
Ashley Ormon
#64. I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.
John Williams
#65. Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
Laozi
#66. Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.
Ryan Seacrest
#67. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
#68. A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. It was because of that boy that I returned to Akbar.
Paulo Coelho
#69. There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.
Stella Benson
#70. Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
Lin Yutang
#71. My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.
Amanda Holden
#72. If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
Thomas A Kempis
#73. I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
Olivier Theyskens
#74. When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
Robert Browning
#75. I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, 'Hello, Gielgud here, any work?' Good on him. We've got to keep working. If we retire, there'll be nobody to play the old wrinklies, and that would be a dreadful shame.
Charles Dance
#76. You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.
Bill Buford
#77. The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.
Zheng Bijian
#78. There is nothing to become. The Truth shines here and now. Awareness IS. One does not become it. The Sun shines. One can simply enjoy it or be busy otherwise. That's it. The Sun shines irrespectively.
Awareness. Fire. The Song.
IT IS.
Stop fighting. Stop.
T.R. Cordon
#80. The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#81. I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy,why not make up happy shit?
Erykah Badu
#82. After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.
Wendy Mass
#83. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Paulo Coelho
#84. Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that.
Miranda Kerr
#86. In works of labour,
or of skill,
I would be busy, too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
#87. For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.
Susan Brackney
#88. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.
Liza Minnelli
#89. I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.
Eddie Kaye Thomas
#90. Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.
Chetan Bhagat
#91. A year ago, I was too busy thinkin' about how lucky I was that someone as beautiful and talented as you let me into her bed to be bossy. Now I know you love me, I can be as bossy as I want.
Kristen Ashley
#92. Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#93. When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.
Caitlin Moran
#94. It is safe to say that the majority of evangelical churches today are busy teaching their flock how to be better goats, but they are not preaching Bible-centered messages that grow religious affections.
Todd Friel
#95. Have unconditional love to your children no matter what happens. Give them time even in the midst of this busy life - be one on one with them.
Jennie Finch
#96. Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
Saul Bellow
#99. I thought of my mother ( ... ). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
Scott Spencer
#100. Strange, but I actually wished I was hungover. Because when you're so busy thinking about how awful you feel you forget for a moment how awful you are. Because pain can be its own relief. Because throwing up is a super-effective way to stay a size 0.
Elizabeth Little
