Productivity is all about accomplishing more in less time. Increasing productivity, on the other hand, does not happen by itself. If we want to be productive, we sometimes need inspiration to push us in the right direction. This is when productivity quotes might come in helpful.
Here are some powerful productivity quotes to get you motivated as you start the new year!
1. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ― Francis Of Assisi
2. "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." ― Stephen Covey
3. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” ― Paul J. Meyer
4. "It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know." ― Tony Robbins
5. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. ― Bruce Lee
6. “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” ― Thomas Sowell
7. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” ― Peter Drucker
8. "Focus on being productive instead of busy." ― Tim Ferriss
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9. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” ― Franz Kafka
10. “If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” ― Donald Trump
11. “Both good and bad days should end with productivity. Your mood affairs should never influence your work.” ― Greg Evans
12. “Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.” ― Robin Sharma
13. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” ― Paul J. Meyer
14. "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." ― Stephen Covey
15. "If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves." ― David Allen
16. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ― Thomas Edison
17. "It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less." ― Nathan W. Morris
18. “There is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it over.” ― John W. Bergman
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19. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ― Stephen King
20. “Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” ― Caterina Fake
21. “If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do” ― Samuel Butler
22. “Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fare in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals.” ― Noel DeJesus
23. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney
24. "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
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25. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” ― Benjamin E. Mays,
26. “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” ― Nathan W. Morris
27. "Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before." ― Franz Kafka
28. “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” ― Seth Godin
29. “Simplicity boils down to two steps: identify the essential, eliminate the rest.” ― Leo Babauta
30. “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
31. “The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.” ― Shannon Wheeler
32. “Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.” ― Tom Rath
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33. “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
34. “Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.” ― Joseph B. Wirthlin
35. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
36. "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
37. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” ― Michael Jordan
38. "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
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39. “Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.”― Mark Twain
40. “The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.” ― Henry David Thoreau
41. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
42. “Nothing is particularly hard when you divide it into small jobs.” ― Henry Ford
43. “Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.” ― Peter F. Drucker
44. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” ― Tim Ferriss
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. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” ― John F. Kennedy
47. “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
48. "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
49. "When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice." ― William James
50. "If you have time to whine then you have time to find a solution." ― Dee Dee Artner
51. "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
52. "Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. Exhaustion affects your quality and productivity." ― Jeff VanderMeer
53. "The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques." ― Shannon Wheeler
54. "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." ― Thomas Edison
55. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover." ― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.'s mother
56. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” ― Mark Twain
57. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ― Jim Rohn
58. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” ― Peter Drucke
59. “Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.” ― Mark Cuban
60. "Don't wait. The time will never be just right." ― Napoleon Hill
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