Keep Busy Quotes

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sadness, Unhappy, Misery

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• The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dwelling, Sorrow, Busy

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• You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Moving, Car

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• Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

  Robert Genn

  Pregnancy, Waiting, Busy

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• The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sweet, Secret, Age

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Brain, Busy

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• George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.62, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Majority, Life Is, Busy

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.

  Niki Taylor

  Meaningful, Likes, Busy

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• I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

  Sebastian Coe

  Thinking, Alternatives, Workaholic

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• Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Pain, Order

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

  Demi Lovato

  Real, Worry, Trying

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• Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

  Dorothy Draper

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

  Burt Lancaster

  Busy, Providing

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• The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

  Henrietta Mears

  Success, Army, Men

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• Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

  Lauren Mackler

  People, Action, Busy

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I just try to keep busy. I find sometimes, when I put my emotions into records, I don't feel as depressed. It's so easy to get depressed. Sometimes it makes me feel better. Sometimes it makes me feel the same. But, the same squared. So, monumentally the same.

  Rob Crow

  Feel Better, Trying, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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  One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Sentimental, Busy, Reason

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

  Eric Lange

  Giving, Creative, Trying

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• The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Gratitude, Jobs, Kindness

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• Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

  Teddy Wilson

  Music, Player, Limits

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• I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

  Bryan Cranston

  Purpose, Want, Busy

  Source: collider.com

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• Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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