Busy Quotes

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon

Life, Making, While

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Home, Fear, Conquer

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca

Great, Best, Positive

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Home, Courage, Fear

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

Work, Real, Mean

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

Life, Faith, Yourself

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Job, Find, Tell

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau

Enough, Question, Ants

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Success, Looking

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Time, Others

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt Cobain

Acting, Here, Seen

He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Mary Kay Ash

Time, Important, Person

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball

Person, Done, Ask

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Good, Finds

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela

Politics, Time, Before

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Morning, Him

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

Dreams, Great, Important

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'
Demetri Martin

Alone, Help, Game

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
Ray Bradbury

Done, Give, Far

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns

Bad, Country, Hair

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
Jerry Seinfeld

Nothing, Idea, Forces

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen

Life, Seems, Quick

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
Charles Stanley

God, Simple, Someone

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard

Seems, Bee, Buzz

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois

Time, Bad, Person

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Mind, Between, Everyone

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.
Gordon Ramsay

Forward, Looking, Cry

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