25 Quotes for Busy People

John Sachem
Are you stressed out and busy? It's time to take a break from your busy schedule. We all need to slow down and relax. Here's a collection of motivational quotes to refresh your soul. Have some fun and leave your work behind. You deserve a break. Renew your mind and rediscover the beauty of being alive.

"To fill the hour -- that is happiness."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do."
--Kathleen Winsor

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves"
--Jack Kornfield

"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing"
--Lao Tzu

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
--Henry David Thoreau

"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The busy have no time for tears."
--Lord Byron

"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower."
--Kin Hubbard

"Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are"
--Anonymous

"Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills."
--C. Neil Strait

"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
--Mark Twain

"At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent."
--Golda Meir

"If you're too busy to help those around you succeed, you're too busy."
--Anonymous

"Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
--Georgia O'Keefe

"If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness."
--Gunter Grass

"The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further."
--Sir Heneage Ogilvie

"If you are too busy to pray, you are too busy"
--Anonymous

"No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable."
--Walter Savage Landor

"The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest."
--French Proverb

"The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world."
--Eric Hoffer

"Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night."
--Author Unknown

"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
--Kin Hubbard

"I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death."
--Zora Neale Hurston

"If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven."
--Anonymous

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Published by John Sachem

I am a youth pastor who works at a church in National City. I love spending time with young people.  View profile

"When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves"
-Jack Kornfield

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