Success and achievements are mostly related to time management. But one of the secrets of productivity for long-term success is understanding that you’ll always have the same amount of minutes, days, and hours to spare. So, time isn’t the thing to manage, your activities are. Inspirational productivity quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Productivity Quotes
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary
What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent. Susan Cain
Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals. Dan S. Kennedy
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. Delmore Schwartz
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. Warren Buffett
Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity. Gretchen Rubin
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. Franz Kafka
If you want an easy job to seem mighty hard, just keep putting if off. Richard Miller
If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one. Jack Ma
Work hard, have fun, and make history. Jeff Bezos
You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things. Tim Ferriss
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. Benjamin E. Mays
Creativity isn’t about wild talent as much as it’s about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don’t. It’s a pure numbers game. Robert Sutton
If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. Donald Trump
If you want something done, give it to a busy man. Preston Sturges
Both good and bad days should end with productivity. Your mood affairs should never influence your work. Greg Evans
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, and productivity. You can be, too. Norman Vincent Peale
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. Friedrich Nietzsche
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell
Focus on being productive instead of busy. Tim Ferriss
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. Paul J. Meyer
It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. Nathan W. Morris
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. Peter Drucker
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week. Charles Richards
Time is not refundable; use it with intention
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. Oprah Winfrey
You don’t get paid for the hour, you get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Rohn
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel
Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.Robin Sharma
The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison
Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. Arthur Schopenhauer
There is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it over. John W. Bergman
Soon is not as good as now. Seth Godin
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney
Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. Michael Jordan
You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment. Seth Godin
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. Paul Gauguin
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker
Life’s gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants. Bryant McGill
Where your attention goes, your time goes Idowu Koyenikan
All our productivity, leverage, and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less. Seth Godin
Time management is about life management. İdowu Koyenikan
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King
You can do anything, but not everything. David Allen
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. Alexander Graham Bell
Think of many things; do one. Portuguese proverb
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. Mark Twain
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn’t sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was ‘productive.’ Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted Gretchen Rubin
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. Caterina Fake
If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. David Allen
There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Edison
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
