Productivity quotes: plenty to get you in the headspace to DO THE THING!
“Consider everything an experiment.”
-corita kent
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
-John f. Kennedy
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals, and I’ll give you a stock clerk.”
-j.c. penny
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
-karen lAMB
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
-john wooden
“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
-colin powell
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
-alan cohen
“Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
-johann wolfgang
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”
-UNKNOWN
“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.”
-isocrates
pRODUCTIVITY QUOTES
“The future depends on what you do today.”
-mahatma ghandi
“Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time.”
-vivek naik
“Do what you love, not what you think you’re supposed to do.”
-unknown
“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”
-winston churchill
“Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and desire for wealth.”
-dalai lama
“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”
-doug firebaugh
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
-albert einstein
“Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.”
-christy borgeld
“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.”
-paul simon
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
-charles darwin
Productivity quotes
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
-peter drucker
“Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day.”
-dan custer
“Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required.”
-Winston churchill
“Victory belongs to the most preserving.”
-napoleon
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
-ronald e. osborn
“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
-david allen
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
-chinese proverb
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”
-paul j. meyer
“Simplicity boils down to two steps: identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
-leo babauta
“If you take too long deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.”
-george bernard shaw
PRODUCTIVITY QUOTES
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
-john wooden
“In one minute you can change your attitude, and in that minute you can change your entire day.”
-spencer johnson
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!”
-henry ford
“There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.”
-monta crane
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
-theodore roosevelt
“Yesterday was not your defining moment. The calendar moved forward; why not you?”
-Steve maraboli
“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”
-brian tracy
“Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”
-john randolph
“Action expresses priorities.”
-mahatma ghandi
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.”
-william james
productivity quotes
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
-muhammad ali
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
-stephen covey
“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
“Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet to come. We only have today. Let us begin.”
-mother teresa
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
-alexander graham bell
“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”
-johann wolfgang von goeth
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
-pablo picasso
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
-roger staubach
“Focusing is about saying no.”
-Steve jobs
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
-douglas adams
PRODUCTIVITY QUOTES
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.”
-mother teresa
“Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
-arthur schopenhauer
“What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”
-pablo picasso
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
-francine jay
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
-socrates
“Passion is genesis of genius.”
-galileo galilei
“People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking.”
-marie kondo
“You can, you should, and – if you are brave enough to start – you will.”
-stephen king
“The only way to learn it is to do it.”
-archimedes, “SWORD IN THE STONE”
“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
-michelle obama
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
-lao tzu
“Keep only those things that speak to your heart, then take the plunge and discard all the rest.”
-marie kondo
“One finger cannot lift a pebble.”
-hopi indian proverb
“Don’t agonize, organize.”
-florynce kennedy
“The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.”
-NIDO QUBEIN
“We should be choosing what we want to keep, not what we want to get rid of.”
-marie kondo
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
-michael jordan
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
-ralph waldo emerson
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
-ernest hemingway
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
-bruce lee
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
-maya angelou
“Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
-trevor noah
“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.”
-louise erdrich
“I don’t know the secret to success, but I’m pretty sure the closest thing is preparation.”
-michelle kwan
“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”
-peter drucker
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, then to be able to decide.”
-napoleon bonaparte
“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.”
-nido quebin
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail.”
-robert schuller
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
-fredrick douglass
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
-samuel johnson
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.”
-jim rohn
“You must do the very thing you think you cannot do.”
-eleanor roosevelt
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.”
-marie kondo
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
-karen lamb
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.”
-marie kondo
“There is light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
-david allen
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