Inspirational productivity quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Productivity Quotes
Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. – Michael Jordan
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. – Nolan Bushnell
It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. – Nathan W. Morris
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. – Paul J. Meyer
My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. – Francine Jay
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. – Franz Kafka
Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. Exhaustion affects your quality and productivity. – Jeff VanderMeer
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing – George Bernard Shaw
Good well-being promotes good productivity. – Lailah Gifty Akita
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. – Franz Kafka
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. – Caterina Fake
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett
If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter Drucker
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. – Peter Drucker
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action. – Paul J. Meyer
Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them. – Robert Southey
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level. – Bill Shorten
There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. – Margaret Bonnano
Action is the foundational key to all success. – Picasso
Connectivity is productivity whether it’s in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. – Iqbal Quadir
The perfect is the enemy of the good. – Voltaire
Life is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart
The only way around is through. – Robert Frost
It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know. – Tony Robbins
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. – Franz Kafka
Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more. – Henry Ford
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."–Theodore Roosevelt
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well. – Margaret J. Wheatley
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. – Stephen King
Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises. – Alex Berenson
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker
It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know. – Tony Robbins
Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. – W. Edwards Deming
There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Francis of Assisi
For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! – Tony Robbins
Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more. – Henry Ford
Why do anything unless it is going to be great? – Peter Block
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. – David Allen
It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one think is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. – Tony Robbins
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. – Paul Gauguin
Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising. – John Todd
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: “If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing. – William Pitt Chatham
There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas A. Edison
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom – Aristotle
Progress occurs where truths are questioned. – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. – David Allen
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. – Bruce Lee
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. – Benjamin Franklin
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donal Trump
Create with the heart; build with the mind. – Criss Jami
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
Don’t allow idleness to deceive you, for while you give him today, he steals tomorrow from you. – H. Croccoquill
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. – Stephen Covey
The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization. – Ken Blanchard
Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. – Francine Jay
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed – Peter Drucker
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. – Tom Peters
Focus on being productive instead of busy. – Tim Ferriss
Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity. – Mario Draghi
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure. – Caleb C. Colton
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. – Alan Watts
The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything". I say, “Only one man can do anything. – John W. Gardner
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy
He that rises late must trot all day – Benjamin Franklin
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. – J. R. D. Tata
Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind. – Robin Sharma
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions – John Randolph
You will boost your productivity with active exercise. – Lailah Gifty Akita
Forget what we became, what matters is what we’ve become, and our potentials to overcome. – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own. – Bruce Lee
There’s usually more than one way to complete a task. I will not stay stuck in my ways. I will remain motivated and open minded. – Izey Victoria Odiase
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. – Peter Drucker
Work gives you meaning, and purpose and life is empty without it – Stephen Hawking
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey
Productivity is a relative matter. And it’s really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer’s strongest books. – Joyce Carol Oates
You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance – Lee Iacocca
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss. – Lee Iacocca
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? – William Shakespeare
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
