51 Inspirational Productivity Quotes To Achieve Your Goals

1. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ― Stephen Covey

2. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” ― Peter Drucker

3. “It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau

4. “Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.” ― Jeffrey Immelt

5. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” ― David Allen

6. “If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” ― Donald Trump

7. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” ― Tony Robbins

8. “There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.” ― Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

9. “Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” ― Caterina Fake

10. “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions” ~ John Randolph

11. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom” ~ Aristotle

12. “Both good and bad days should end with productivity. You mood affairs should never influence your work.” ― Greg Evans

13. “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

14. “Stressing output is the key to improving to productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” ― Andrew Grove

15. “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” ― Les Brown

16. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin

17. “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” ― Delmore Schwartz

18. “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

19. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing” ~ George Bernard Shaw

20. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ― Alexander Graham Bell

21. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” ~ Henry Ford

22. “The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.” ― Timothy Ferriss

23. “If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.” ― Elizabeth Grace Saunders

24. “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” ― Margaret Bonnano

25. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ― Tim Ferriss

26. “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” ― Nathan W. Morris

27. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” ― Peter Drucker

28. “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.” ― Preston Ni

29. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ― Picasso

30. “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

31. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

32. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ― Bruce Lee

33. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel

34. “When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

35. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed” ~ Peter Drucker

36. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ― Charles Darwin

37. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” ― Martha Stewart

38. “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?” ~ Peter Block

39. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” ― Bruce Lee

40. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” ― Herb Kelleher

41. “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

42. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” ― Thomas J. Watson

43. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” ― David Allen

44. “The noblest search is the search for excellence.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson

45. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” ― Paul J. Meyer

46. “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

47. “If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one.” ― Jack Ma

48. “Never mistake motion for action.” ― Ernest Hemingway

49. “The only way around is through.” ― Robert Frost

50. “Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.” ― Henry Ford

51. “Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.” ― Tom Hodgkinson

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