Productivity means to be effective at externally rewarding tasks. It often describes a person’s capability to do a lot of work, but is can refer to anything that produces a lot. Being productive can be used more broadly to describe someone who produces a positive result. Quotes on productivity aim to help you be more productive and positive in your day-to-day life.
Some of the best productivity quotes are listed below.
- “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
- “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee
- “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
- “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller
- “Both good and bad days should end with productivity. Your mood affairs should never influence your work.” – Greg Evans
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “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
- “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.” – Preston Ni
- “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
- “Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation” – Brian Tracy
- “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.” – Peter Drucker
- “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker
- “Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
- “He that rises late must trot all day” – Benjamin Franklin
- “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” – Donald Trump
- “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
- “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
- “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” – Nathan W. Morris
- “Long-range planning works best in the short term.” – Doug Evelyn
- “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” – Franz Kafka
- “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer
- “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
- “Stressing output is the key to improving to productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” – Andrew Grove
- “Success is the ability to go from one failure to the other with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner
- “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
- “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” – Thomas Sowell
- “The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.” – Mitch Kapor
- “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
- “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
- “Think of many things; do one.” – Portuguese proverb
- “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions” – John Randolph
- “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed” – Peter Drucker
- “To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.” – Peter McWilliams
- “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher
- “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior” – Henry C Link
- “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” – Seth Godin
- “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “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
