79 Productivity quotes that will inspire you
Everyone wants to be productive and save time for other important things, but boosting productivity doesn’t happen by itself. Here are the best productivity quotes to drive you in the right direction.
Productivity Quotes
- “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.” – Peter Drucker
- “Time is not renewable; once it’s gone – it’s gone. Use it with a purpose.” – Invajy
- “It is not enough to be busy…. The question is: What are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Productivity is sum product of hard work, discipline and intelligence.” – Invajy
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
- “Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.” – Robin Sharma
- “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen
- “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” – Nathan W. Morris
- “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
- ”Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
Being Productive Quotes
- “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed” – Peter Drucker
- “The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner
- “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Tony Robbins
- “He that rises late must trot all day” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
- “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee
- “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
- “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” – Thomas Sowell
- “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
- “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” – Martha Stewart
Productivity Quotes
- “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
- “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” – Peter Drucker
- “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
- “The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.” – Mitch Kapor
- “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu
- “In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it’s no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we’re worth” – Ellen Sue Stern
- “There’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.” – Shia LaBeouf
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.” – Preston Ni
Be Productive Quotes
- “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your Struggle develops your strengths. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
- “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller
- “To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.” – Corita Kent
- “Success is the ability to go from one failure to the other with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher
- “Long-range planning works best in the short term.” – Doug Evelyn
- “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” – John F. Kennedy
Productivity Quotes
- “Both good and bad days should end with productivity. You mood affairs should never influence your work.” – Greg Evans
- “Being productive does not mean to be busy.” – Invajy
- “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
- “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker
- “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” – Seth Godin
- “A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.” – Mary Garden
- “When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” – William James
- “Stressing output is the key to improving to productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” – Andrew Grove
- “I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.” – Warren Buffett
- “Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation” – Brian Tracy
Inspiring Productivity Quotes
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison
- “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
- “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions” – John Randolph
- “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior” – Henry C Link
- “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
Productivity Quotes
- “Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” – Tom Peters
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
- “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” – Michael Jordan
- “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese proverb
- “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” – Leo Babauta
- “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” – Laurence Sterne
- “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” – Thomas J. Watson
Quotes about Productivity
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” – Donald Trump
- “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” – Franz Kafka
- “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
- “To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.” – Peter McWilliams
- “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
- “No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.” – Brian Tracy
- “It’s fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind.” – David Allen
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
