When Someone is Too Busy for You Quotes

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– When Someone is Too Busy for You Quotes –

Anyone who has accomplished something in life has had incredible motivation and understands how to work hard. Here are when someone is too busy for you quotes to help you find inspiration.

When Someone is Too Busy for You Quotes

Read some of the most famous keeping busy quotes and sayings about the relationship between being busy and one’s quality of life, happiness, and success.

1. “I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.” ― Mitch Albom

2. “Be busy with your free life.”― Amit Abraham

3. “Making something take longer than necessary is probably the worst example of work ethic and is patently lazy, but looks busy…not cool.”― Richie Norton

4. “God is busy and has no time for you.”― Dejan Stojanovic

5. “Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.”― Debasish Mridha

6. “Busyness chokes deep thinking.”― Todd Stocker

7. “I’m not ignoring you. I’m busy building my empire.”― Moosa Rahat

8. “You can’t do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.”
― Bill Buford

9. “Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me. ”― Tabitha Robin

10. “Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!”― Michael Bassey Johnson

11. “Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are?”― Bob Talbert

12. “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”― Henry David Thoreau

13. “Some times things just fall off your plate.”― V.K. Springs

14. “I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn’t find the time to do it.”― Todd Stocker

15. “When someone tells you they are too ‘busy’… It’s not a reflection of their schedule; it’s a reflection of YOUR spot on their schedule.”― Steve Maraboli

16. “I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.”― Dorothy Allison

17. “Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed.”― Toba Beta

18. “Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.”― Lin Yutang

19. “And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.” ― Catherynne M

20. “Never be so busy as not to think of others.”― Mother Teresa

21. “You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”― Greg Behrendt

22. “Taking just an hour off from your busy schedule and working on your own health can do wonders for you.”― Pooja Agnihotri,

23. “I like the pace of my world. It’s busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.”― Hoda Kotb

24. “…caught up in our own busyness, frantically running from one crisis to the next in a cycle that looks less like loving the Messiah and more like trying to become one.”― Phileena Heuertz

25. “It’s amazing how busy someone gets when they have no interest in connecting with you.”― Steve Maraboli

26. “Being busy has its perk, and every perk comes with certain limitations. Friends drifting away because you’re a bit busy is one of the many limitations.”Sarvesh Jain

27. “Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it’s going nowhere… It seems like I don’t have time to do anything. I’m stuck… I do a million things and nothing comes out…”― Dominique Goblet

28. “Arched pillars held up a very high ceiling that echoed with the sounds of footsteps as everyone bustled about their business. They all seemed to know exactly what to do and where to go…”― Audrey Mackaman

29. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”― Surya Raj

30. “Being busy doesn’t mean being productive.”― Aniekee 

31. “Time also flies when you’re really fuckin’ busy.”― A.D. Aliwat

32. “Some people are too busy to find ways to save time.”― Frank Sonnenberg

33. “Being busy is not an excuse for being rude. Circumstances don’t change you, it just reflects your inner self.”― Sarvesh Jain

34. “We are not that busy; we are just distracted.”― Shawn Wells

35. “People who endure suffering are taken beneath the routine busyness of life and find they are not who they believed themselves to be.”― David Brooks

36. “Being bored is more useful than being busy.”― Maxime Lagacé

37. “Being busy is as good as doing nothing.. practicing deliberate nothingness is a form of meditation..”― Jaya Bhateja

38. “Sometimes, “busy” is shorthand for something else, in the same way that “tired” can mean anything from physically exhausted to extremely depressed.” ― Adam J. Kurtz

39. “A tree never complains about the winter because she is busy getting ready to bloom during the spring and summer.”― Debasish Mridha

40. “Overwhelming ! People think about jumping off bridges . . . when they see what I have on my plate . . . and thats just before lunch”― Kevin Kolenda

41. “It is still painful for me to wait for your calls while you’re too busy celebrating your victory in which I have supported you so much.”― Srinivas Mishra

42. “Just because we’re busy doesn’t mean we’re being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.”― Gretchen Rubin

43. “Together; we would create some ecstatic memories, but you are either busy or sleepy.”― Suman Pokhrel

44. “Keep yourself busy until you feel sleepy.”― Suman Pokhrel

Comfort or Encouragement

Here are some deep staying busy quotes from well-known writers and poets. We hope these words and sayings illuminate your lives and inspire you to take action.

45. “No one hugs, everyone is busy comforting with words.”― Nitya Prakash

46. “No matter how busy you become in life, you’ll always find time for people who’re too busy avoiding you.”― Nitya Prakash

47. “Go, get some work. Keeping yourselves busy could solve many problems.”― Giridhar Alwar

48. “Together, we would create some ecstatic memories , but you are either busy or sleepy.”― Suman Pokhrel

49. “I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.”― Wendell Berry

50. “We’re all very busy with somethings, mostly with the most trivial things!”Mehmet Murat ildan

51. “No one is busy in this world. It’s all about priorities.” – Unknown

52. “Just cause i am busy does not mean I don’t love you.”

53. “Nobody is never too busy, If they care, the will make time.”

54. “No one is ever too busy. You are just not important enough.” – Unknown

55. “Always make the other person feel important.” – John Dewey

56. “Being busy does not always mean real work.” – Thomas A. Edison

57. “It’s like I’m busy being happy and you’re busy bringing me down.”

58. “You are never too busy to take time out of your day for those who matter most.”

59. “No one is really busy, it all depends on what number you are on their priority list.” – Unknown

60. “I keep myself busy with the things I do. But every time I pause, I still think of you.”

61. “A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.” – Kin Hubbard

62. “Spend less time staring into screens and more time staring into eyes.” – Karen Salmansohn

63. “No matter how busy you are, always make time for those people you would be afraid to lose.”

64. “There’s no such thing as being too busy. If you really want something, you’ll make time for it.”

Reflection of their Schedule

Read these busy man quotes by some of the greatest people to learn about their perspectives on being overburdened with everything in life.

65. “No matter how busy a person day might be. If they really care, they’ll always find time for you.” – Unknown

66. “You will become impressive the day you stop trying. You will become successful the day you stop being busy.”― Maxime Lagacé

67. “Being busy is one thing however productivity is the real gem.”― Hopal Green

68. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”― Henry David Thoreau

69. “I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.” ― Gordon Ramsay

70. “Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.”― Wayne Dyer

71. “A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.”― Kin Hubbard

72. “I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.”― Sebastian Coe

73. “The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.”― Eric Hoffer

74. “A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.”― Anton van Leeuwenhoek

75. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.”    ― Matt Lucas

76. “I love to keep busy. The challenge of fitting all of my activities into each day is my motivation.”    ― Sarah Kochik

77. “It’s called an occupation. Not a preoccupation. It’s call success, not obsess. And it’s called being in a business. Not being in abyss-ness. It’s called giving yourself a break to avoid a breakdown. It’s called being good to you.”― Karen Salmansohn

78. “Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.”― Ann Voskamp

79. “It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.”― Stephan Covey

80. “Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.”― Vernon Law

81. “We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.”― Stephen Covey

82. “To me, ‘busy’ implies that the person is out of control of their life.”― Derek Sivers

83. “Just because we’re busy doesn’t mean we’re being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.”―  Gretchen Rubin,

84. ‘Outer Order, Inner Calm: De-clutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness’

85. “The business of living can steal away the wonder of life.”― M.J. Rose, ‘Tiffany Blues’

86. “The busiest men have the most leisure.”― English Proverb

87. “Get busy living, or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, ‘ Different Seasons’

88. “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”― Jim Rohn

89. “So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”— Alfred Tennyson

90. “Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.”— Lin Yutang

91. “Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!”— John Dryden

92. “Some of us are busy doing things, some of us are busy complaining”—  Debasish Mridha

93. “I don’t have time to hate people who hate me because I’m too busy loving people who love me.”

94. “How can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again.” – Rupi Kaur

95. “My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.” – Ben Marcus

96. “No calls? I understand. No text? I understand. But when you see me with someone else, please understand.”

97. “Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.” – Diana Ross

98. “Pretending that you’re very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don’t want to talk to.”

99. “There is no one busy in this world, it’s always about priorities. You will always find time for the things you feel important.”

100. “Its very easy to say “BUSY” when someone needs you… But its very painful to heat “BUSY” when you need someone….”

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CSN Team.

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