60 Best Productivity Quotes to Get You Motivated (Updated for 2023)

Are looking for some productivity inspiration? Productivity quotes can inspire you to achieve new levels of greatness.

Below are some of the best productivity quotes to help you become more productive.

Best Productivity Quotes

1. “Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.” -Robert Allen

2. “Always deliver more than expected.” -Larry Page

3. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” -Tim Ferriss

4. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” -Mark Twain

5. “Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation.” -Brian Tracy

6. “You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.” -Seth Godin

7. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” -Jim Rohn

8. “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” -Benjamin Franklin

9. “You may delay, but time will not.” -Benjamin Franklin

10. “Have patience. All things in life are difficult before they become easy.” -Saadi

11. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” -Zig Ziglar

12. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” -Jim Rohn

13. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

14. “Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself.” -Rumi

15. “You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” -Stephen Hogan

16. “Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” -Stephen Hawking

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

18. “When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do.” -Zig Ziglar

19. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” -Ralph Marston

20. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle

21. “What gets measured gets managed.” -Peter Drucker

22. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” -Stephen McCranie

23. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” -Peter Drucker

24. “The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost

25. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney

26. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill

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

28. “Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” -Brian Tracy

29. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Alan Kay

30. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” -Michael Jordan

31. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” -Warren Buffet

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

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

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

35. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” -Oprah Winfrey

36. “Practice isn’t the things you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” -Malcolm Gladwell

37. “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower 

38. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” -Henry Ford

39. “My goal is to build a life I don’t need a vacation from.” -Rob Hill, Sr.

40. “Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou

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

42. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” -Earl Nightingale

43. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” -Jim Rohn

44. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” -Napoleon Hill

45. “Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.” -Stephen Covey

46. “Let today be the day you give up who you’ve been for who you can become.” -Hal Elrod

47. “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” -Tony Robbins

48. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill

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

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

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

52. “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” -Sir Edmund Hillary

53. “Multitasking is a lie.” -Gary Keller

54. “The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.” –Henry David Thoreau

55. “Life’s gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.” –Bryant McGill

56. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” –Charles Darwin

57. “The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.” –Shannon Wheeler

58. “Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.” -Janet Yellen

59. “Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. Exhaustion affects your quality and productivity.” -Jeff VanderMeer

60. “The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.” -Genghis Khan

Conclusion

The productivity quotes can inspire you to achieve new levels of greatness.

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