best quotations about
Being Busy |
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Quotations
 | A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes |
 | Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 9 likes |
 | Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 7 likes |
 | Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 7 likes |
 | There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 7 likes |
 | I’m busy right now, can I ignore you some other time? — Anonymous 6 likes |
 | Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 5 likes |
 | Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 5 likes |
 | Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
| Never confuse Motion with Action. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 3 likes |
 | He not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 3 likes |
 | Never mistake activity for achievement. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
 | Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes |
 | Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 2 likes |
 | Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. |
| Keep ‘em busy. That was one of the three rules of being chief that old Grimm had passed on to him. Act confidently, never say “I don’t know,” and when all else fails, keep ‘em busy. |
 | Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. |
| Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower. |
 | I have nothing to do, and that's what takes all my time. |
 | There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. |
| Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. |
| Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality. |
 | Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days. |
 | That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think . |
 | I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. |
 | Inventors don't have time for married life. |
 | Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. |
Latin Quotes
 | Life is in motion. Vita in motu. — Sundial motto 53 likes |
 | In the middle of things. In medias res. 18 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | A rolling stone gathers no moss. Λίθος κυλινδόμενος το φύκος ου ποιεί. 6 likes |
 | As they say, it's better not to be busy doing too many things, if you want to be in good mood. Ολίγα πρήσσε, φησίν, ει μέλλεις ευθυμήσειν. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations IV, 24 6 likes |
 | To meddle in many things is not safe in life Το πολλά πράσσειν ουκ εν ασφαλεί βίου. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Hippolytus 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. — from the film The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2 likes |
