89 Errand Quotes
Following is our list of errand quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about running errands.
Quick Jump To
Famous Errand Quotes
A busybody's work is never done. — A. N. Wilson
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. — Henry David Thoreau
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance. — Alton Brown
From the promise to the deed is a day’s journey. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is not a moment without some duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. — Japanese Proverbs
Every journey starts with a single step. — Confucius
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — English Proverbs
If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment. — Dave Allen
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. — Jane Austen
If you want something done, ask a busy person. — Benjamin Franklin
Short Errand Quotes
- Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. — Red Skelton
- You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand — Woodrow Wilson
- Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. — Thomas Beecham
- Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. — Yunus Emre
- We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. — Woodrow Wilson
- The road goes ever on and on — J. R. R. Tolkien
- I walk wherever my errands take me. — Rebecca Solnit
- Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand. — Olivier Sarkozy
- Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro. — James Howell
- Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. — Ezra Stiles
Fool's Errand Quotes
Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant. — Bill Ackman
The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms. — Seth Klarman
Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms. — Kylie Tennant
The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand. — Tim Ferriss
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. — Amos Bronson Alcott
There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line. — Brandon Boyd
Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand. — Matt Chandler
Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t, I guarantee you that there’s going to be a day every week when I’m going to stuff myself, especially if it’s PMS time. — Evangeline Lilly
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. — Roger Caras
Running Errands Quotes
I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that. — Sayings
We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life. — Tristan Prettyman
Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation. — Andrew Weil
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run. — Michael Cunningham
I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice. — Carrie Underwood
Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands. — Conan O'Brien
Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore. — Tom Hanks
I’m Adorable. I Look like Keira Knightley Running Errands! — Mindy Kaling
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State. — W. S. Gilbert
People Writing About Errand
More Errand Quotes
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. — Woodrow Wilson
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. — Samuel Rutherford
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list. — Michelle Obama
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. — Henry James
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say — J. R. R. Tolkien
God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it. — Charles Spurgeon
Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand. — Susan Collins
I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. — John Green
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. — Lloyd Alexander
What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none of these!" Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight, Whose eye looks still And steadily on thee through the night; "To do His will! — John Greenleaf Whittier
The Lord’s purposes are often accomplished as we pay heed to the guidance of the Spirit. I believe that the more we act upon the inspiration and impressions which come to us, the more the Lord will entrust to us His errands. — Thomas S. Monson
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence. — Henry Ward Beecher
The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand. — William Shakespeare
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees. — Rutherford B. Hayes
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. — Jock Sturges
I'm an animal. I'm an animal in real-life and an animal onstage. I never became a recluse, I never lived up in the Hills where I didn't see real life. You know what I mean? I'm not still living in Brooklyn, but I'm still living in the street. I go out by myself, I don't go out with a million body guards, I run my own errands. — Andrew Dice Clay
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. — Edie Falco
Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done. — John Green
And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day. — Michael Crichton
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce. — Frances Osborne
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris
Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands. — Daphne Oz
Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them. — Henry David Thoreau
How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature. — Henry David Thoreau
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of errand quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about errand to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of errand quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
Embed HTML Link
Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage