Quotes on Being Busy

If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

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

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

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

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.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Always make the other person feel important.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.