Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. — Ovid
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. — Thomas More
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. — Ignatius of Loyola
If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. — St. Jerome
Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best. — Joseph Murphy
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. — Margaret Fuller
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. — David Brainerd
If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then. — Al-Ghazali
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. — Socrates
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
Occupy Your Mind Quotes
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay. — Maya Angelou
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. — Anthony Kiedis
If you knew that you only had one day to live, what would you think about-your car or favorite pair of shoes or would it be the more everyday joys that occupy your mind? — Kristine Carlson
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. — Edmund Burke
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. — Isabelle Holland
The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind. — Norman Vincent Peale
It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused; otherwise, you get very spaced out. There are many variant psychic forces and powers that roam through the worlds. You can pick them up. — Frederick Lenz
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied. — Jack McDevitt
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems. — Frederick Lenz
Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice. — Mark Rippetoe
Keep Yourself Busy Quotes
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
Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it. — Bill Withers
You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. — Napoleon Hill
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself. — Sarah Michelle Gellar
I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands. — Martha Washington
Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world. — James Caan
Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself. — Preity Zinta
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between. — Lyall Watson
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P. J. O'Rourke
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. — Pawan Kalyan
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day. — James Purefoy
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. — Douglas Adams
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life. — W. Somerset Maugham
I think you have to take the man and say to yourself, [Donald Trump] is someone who wants to occupy the Oval Office, where Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and people who were our president, and I don't think it's just a woman's issue. I think it's an issue that should be of concern to all Americans. — Hillary Clinton
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit. — Frederick Lenz
Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal thought has big government - we'll take care of you - and that creates boys and they create things like Occupy Wall Street! There's a difference between the way men and boys behave. — Brad Stine
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. — Maya Angelou
When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I was serious and had no interest in occupying any political position, so they started to fall out one by one. — Wole Soyinka
As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next. — Robert Cormier
Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you. — David Eagleman
My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. — Jock Sturges
I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life. — Twyla Tharp
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power. — Frederick Lenz
When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense. — Noam Chomsky
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. — Chester A. Arthur
Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. . — Confucius
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. — Louis Kronenberger
When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part. — Rex Harrison
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