100 Productivity Quotes That Encourage Smart Habits
Getting more done with less stress is the goal and productivity is how you get there.
These quotes offer bite-sized wisdom on working smarter, not harder.
Whether you’re battling procrastination or refining your systems, there’s inspiration in every line.
Top Productivity Quotes
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ~ Paul J. Meyer
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ~ Walt Disney
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. ~ Steve Jobs
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. ~ Stephen King
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ~ Franz Kafka
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. ~ Bruce Lee
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. ~ Peter Drucker
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ~ Stephen Covey
Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy. ~ Robin Sharma
Focus on being productive instead of busy. ~ Tim Ferriss
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. ~ Alexis Carrel
It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. ~ Nathan W. Morris
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. ~ Shannon Wheeler
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. ~ Leo Babauta
The key to successful time management is doing the most important task first, and giving it your full concentration, to the exclusion of everything else. ~ Brian Tracy
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. ~ Mark Twain
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ~ Paul J. Meyer
You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment. ~ Seth Godin
Productivity is less about what you do with your time and more about how you run your mind. ~ Robin Sharma
Efficiency Quotes
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. ~ Peter Drucker
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~ Bill Gates
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~ Peter Drucker
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~ David Dunham
Never mistake motion for action. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. ~ Bruce Lee
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ~ Peter Drucker
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. ~ Alexis Carrel
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. ~ Leo Babauta
The key to successful time management is doing the most important task first, and giving it your full concentration, to the exclusion of everything else. ~ Brian Tracy
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. ~ Mark Twain
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ~ Paul J. Meyer
You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment. ~ Seth Godin
Productivity is less about what you do with your time and more about how you run your mind. ~ Robin Sharma
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ~ Stephen Covey
Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy. ~ Robin Sharma
Focus on being productive instead of busy. ~ Tim Ferriss
It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. ~ Nathan W. Morris
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. ~ Shannon Wheeler
Work Optimization Quotes
The best way to get something done is to begin. ~ Anonymous
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Mark Twain
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~ John D. Rockefeller
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. ~ Steve Jobs
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. ~ Steve Jobs
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~ Jimmy Johnson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~ Robert Collier
The harder I work, the luckier I get. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. ~ Tim Notke
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~ Harry Golden
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Edison
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise. ~ Frank Ocean
The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible. ~ Charles Kingsleigh
The future depends on what you do today. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. ~ Dwayne Johnson
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon
Task Management Quotes
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ~ Stephen Covey
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. ~ Amelia Earhart
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ~ William Penn
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. ~ Michael Altshuler
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~ Dale Carnegie
The key to successful time management is doing the most important task first, and giving it your full concentration, to the exclusion of everything else. ~ Brian Tracy
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. ~ Mark Twain
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ~ Paul J. Meyer
You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment. ~ Seth Godin
Productivity is less about what you do with your time and more about how you run your mind. ~ Robin Sharma
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. ~ Stephen Covey
Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy. ~ Robin Sharma
Focus on being productive instead of busy. ~ Tim Ferriss
It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less. ~ Nathan W. Morris
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. ~ Shannon Wheeler
Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest. ~ Leo Babauta
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. ~ Alexis Carrel
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. ~ Bruce Lee
Performance Optimization Quotes
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~ Anonymous
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. ~ Mark Twain
Strive for progress, not perfection. ~ Anonymous
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. ~ John Wooden
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~ Henry Ford
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ~ Vince Lombardi
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~ Peter Drucker
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Mark Twain
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~ John D. Rockefeller
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. ~ Steve Jobs
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. ~ Steve Jobs
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vidal Sassoon
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~ Jimmy Johnson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~ Robert Collier
The harder I work, the luckier I get. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. ~ Tim Notke
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~ Harry Golden
