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Top 46 Productivity Quotes that Will Inspire You

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Best Productivity Quotes that will Inspire You

Productivity is incredibly important when trying to become successful. You may have all the ideas you want for a business, a website and so on, but if you’re not actually being productive with your time, these ideas will never be carried out.

So many amazing ideas that people come up with are taken to their graves, without ever being unleashed on the world. All because they weren’t disciplined enough and productive enough to take action.

This list highlights 46 productivity quotes that have inspired me to increase my productivity rate and become better at managing my time, so hopefully they’ll help you do the same.

Here are the best productivity quotes of all time:

The Top 46 Best Productivity Quotes

1. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King

2. “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.” – Zig Ziglar

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

4. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior” – Henry C Link

5. “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

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

7. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

8. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey

9. “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” – Thomas Sowell

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“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

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

12. “The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner

13. “He that rises late must trot all day” – Benjamin Franklin

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

15. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.” – Peter Drucker

16. “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

17. “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

18. “The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.” – Mitch Kapor

19. “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin

20. “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

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“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

22. “Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese proverb

23. “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” – Laurence Sterne

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

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

26. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

27. “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.” – Preston Ni

28. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” – Franz Kafka

29. “To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.” – Peter McWilliams

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

31. “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

32. “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” – Seth Godin

33. “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

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

35. “Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation” – Brian Tracy

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

37. “Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

38. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee

39. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

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“Long-range planning works best in the short term.” – Doug Evelyn

41. “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

42. “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

43. “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller

44. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to the other with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

45. “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

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