Busy Quotes - page 2

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? (John Donne)
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. View quote
Torquato Tasso
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
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. View quote
Dale Carnegie
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. View quote
Sue Grafton
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns. View quote
William Cowper
How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too. View quote
William Cowper
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. (Jane Austen)
Get busy living or get busy dying. View quote
Stephen King
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
'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. View quote
Brené Brown
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. View quote
Isaac Watts
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
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. View quote
Erich Fromm
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. (Katharine Whitehorn)
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. View quote
James Joyce
If you want work well done, select a busy man the other kind has no time. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people, we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps. View quote
William Boyd