Are you having trouble finding ways to be productive? Personal productivity might not be as easy as you think, but from time to time you also need to draw some inspiration to keep you motivated.
As you browse through this blog post, you will find 40 quotes that will inspire you to work harder and smarter. These pearls of wisdom will also help you encourage and be motivated to become productive in your workplace.
1. Start by doing what is necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Francis Of Assisi
2. There is no substitute for hard work. — Thomas A. Edison
3. The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. — Thomas Sowell
4. If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors. — Elizabeth Grace Saunders
5. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you will never get it done. — Bruce Lee
6. Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker
7. It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? — Henry David Thoreau
8. There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions. — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
9. The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. — Tom Peters
10. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell
11. 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
12. We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free. — Laure Lacornette
13. The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. — Timothy Ferriss
14. The society based on production is only productive, not creative. — Albert Camus
15. Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more. — Henry Ford
16. Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. — Donald Trump
17. 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
18. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
19. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein
20. If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. – Olin Miller
21. Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. – Stephen King
22. A year from now you may wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
23. Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. – Napoleon Bonaparte
24. If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. – David Allen
25. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie
26. Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene. – Edward Young
27. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso
28. To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. – Eva Young
29. The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. – Thomas Sowell
30. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
31. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ‘someday I’ll’ philosophy. – Denis Waitley
32. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell
33. Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker
34. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill
35. Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. – David Allen
36. How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never. – Martin Luther
37. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn
38. When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice. – William James
39. Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. – Denis Waitley
40. If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. – Olin Miller
So, what is your favorite quote about productivity? I hope these quotes help you gain inspiration and motivation to do your work and achieve your goals. Always remember that productivity is never an accident but the result of commitment. Start being productive now and wisely manage your priorities.
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