Quotes on Busy Life

Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

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.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

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

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

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.

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.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.