Busyness Quotes

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

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

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.