Profoundly inspirational busy quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Famous Busy Quotes
Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose. – Saji Ijiyemi
We are so busy that the truth about our lives can’t catch up. – Brena Brown
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
I love to keep busy. The challenge of fitting all of my activities into each day is my motivation. – Sarah Kochik
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower. – Kin Hubbard
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
The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy. – Buck Owens
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon
‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us. – Brene Brown
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. – Morrie Schwartz
He not busy being born is busy dying. – Bob Dylan
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
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
Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives. – Kourtney Kardashian
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. – Steven Spielberg
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. – Vernon Law
When you are insane, you are busy being insane all the time. – Sylvia Plath
Being busy with work, and as a mum, I’m a big fan of online shopping. Kirsty Gallacher
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. – Socrates
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.
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. – John Kenneth Galbraith
I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself. – Demi Lovato
You can really only enjoy life when you’re extremely busy. – Josephine de La Baume
A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere. – Zig Ziglar
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. – Saint Francis de Sales
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
I don’t care how busy I am I will always make time for what’s most important to me. – Kevin Hart
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
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
Get busy living, or get busy dying. – Stephen King
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. – Jane Austen
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I’d be dead. – Jeremy Renner
In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. – Jemima Khan
We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. – T. D. Jakes
When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life. – Bonnie Wright
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’m always busy, but I’m lazy as well. – Jeff Bridges
New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave. – Raina Telgemeier
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – Dag Hammarskjold
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
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity. – Ryan Holmes
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. – Ram Dass
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. – Geoffrey Chaucer
Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. – Lin Yutang
We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind. – Stephen R. Covey
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn. – Agnes Repplier
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
If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love. – Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. – Mary Kay Ash
The busy have no time for tears. – Lord Byron
You can’t right the wrongs because you’ll never understand the cause and you’ll be too busy dodging the effect. – Henry Rollins
We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care. – Billy Graham
We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. – R. A. Torrey
We want to continue to keep our youth busy so they have more activities than just hanging around the streets and getting in trouble. – Steve Russell
Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them. – Dan Wells
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before. – Chita Rivera
Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it. – Harvey Mackay
Busy doesn’t mean better. I have never envied a busy person the one who likes to point out their busy lives to others. – Donna Lynn Hope
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
Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls. – Rachel Roy
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. – Matt Lucas
It’s as busy as we can possibly get. It’s monstrous. In terms of dollars bet, it’s growing a little bit. – Robert Walker
Real men stay faithful. They don’t have time to look for other women because they’re too busy looking for new ways to love their own. – John F. Kennedy
If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy. – Julia Cameron
I’m too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is. – John Travolta
You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone. – Gayle Forman
Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me. – Tabitha Robin
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself. – Andrei Platonov
People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why. – Terry Pratchett
People are busy and should feel good about doing what they can. – Ryan Rybolt
Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining. – Debasish Mridha
Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen. – Robert Genn
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead. – B C Forbes
It will be extremely busy and we will have an extra person again just taking care of the lottery people. – Johnnie Lowery
man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. – Abu Bakr
As long as you’re too busy trying to become something that you’re not, you can’t see your own immortality. – Frederick Lenz
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Heaven is too busy to listen to half hearted prayers or to respond to pop calls. – Edward Mckendree Bounds
The great thing about an independent film is that you’re too busy working, and you’re too busy hoping to God to get it done. – Ann Dowd
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. – Rabindranath Tagore
