«كِتِيرِ الْحَرَكَهْ قَلِيلِ الْبَرَكَهْ»

The saying sets a busy, restless person against the small amount of real good that comes of their efforts. Constant motion is treated as no guarantee of results; indeed, the more someone fusses and hurries, the less lasting benefit, abundance, or enduring good may follow from what they do.

The sharper point concerns misplaced aims rather than effort as such. The target is someone whose ambition stops at being in motion, who treats activity itself as the goal instead of a means toward something useful. Bustle becomes a substitute for purpose, and the expected fruit of effort never arrives.

Fits remarks about someone who rushes around, keeps busy, or makes a show of effort while producing little of value. It works as a gentle rebuke or wry comment on restless activity lacking focus, not as a dismissal of hard work itself, and may be aimed at oneself.