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Staying motivated and productive can be challenging in today's fast-paced and demanding world. But fear not, as we have compiled a collection of the most inspiring and effective quotes to help you stay motivated and focused on your goals. Whether you're a student, an entrepreneur, or just someone looking to boost their productivity, these quotes will help you stay on track and achieve your full potential. So let's dive in and discover the power of motivation with these great quotes!

95 Compelling Motivational Quotes for Productivity

  1. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” ~ Bruce Lee
  2. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.” ~ Coco Chanel
  3. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
  4. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.” ~ Peter Drucker
  5. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ~ Coco Chanel
  6. “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
  7. “Creativity isn’t about wild talent as much as it’s about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don’t. It’s a pure numbers game.” ~ Robert Sutton
  8. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” ~ David Allen
  9. “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.” ~ Nathan W. Morris
  10. “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
  11. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed” ~ Peter Drucker
  12. “The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” ~ John W. Gardner
  13. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” ~ Tony Robbins
  14. “He that rises late must trot all day” ~ Benjamin Franklin
  15. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.” ~ Thomas Edison
  16. “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” ~ Thomas Sowell
  17. “Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.” ~ Robin Sharma
  18. “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
  19. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” ~ Martha Stewart
  20. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ~ Pablo Picasso
  21. ”Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ~ Tim Ferriss
  22. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
  23. “You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.
  24. It’s called perseverance” ~ Lee Iacocca
  25. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” ~ Peter Drucker
  26. “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.” ~ Preston Ni
  27. “It’s fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind.” ~ David Allen
  28. “If you want an easy job to seem mighty hard, just keep putting if off.” ~ Richard Miller
  29. “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
  30. “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
  31. “The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.” ~ Genghis Khan
  32. “Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
  33. “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
  34. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~ Napoleon Hill
  35. “To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.” ~ Corita Kent
  36. “It is not enough to be busy…. The question is: What are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau
  37. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” ~ John F. Kennedy
  38. “Long-range planning works best in the short term.” ~ Doug Evelyn
  39. “Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.” ~ Gretchen Rubin
  40. “When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.” ~ William James
  41. “Both good and bad days should end with productivity. You mood affairs should never influence your work.” ~ Greg Evans
  42. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” ~ Herb Kelleher
  43. “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
  44. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” ~ Warren Buffett
  45. “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.” ~ Peter Drucker
  46. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~ Martin Luther King
  47. “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
  48. “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” ~ Seth Godin
  49. “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
  50. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to the other with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
  51. “Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
  52. “Life’s gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.” ~ Bryant McGill
  53. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ~ Bruce Lee
  54. “The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.” ~ Mitch Kapor
  55. “Knowledge is the source of wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes innovation.” ~ Peter Drucker
  56. “You don’t get paid for the hour; you get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” ~ Jim Rohn
  57. “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.” ~ Zig Ziglar
  58. “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions” ~ John Randolph
  59. “Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” ~ John Wayne
  60. “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
  61. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior” ~ Henry C Link
  62. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ~ Sam Levenson
  63. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” ~ Zig Ziglar
  64. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” ~ Paul J. Meyer
  65. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” ~ Lao Tzu
  66. “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
  67. “All our productivity, leverage, and insight come from being part of a community, not apart from it.
  68. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.” ~ Seth Godin
  69. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
  70. “Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb
  71. “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” ~ Tom Peters
  72. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ~ Bruce Lee
  73. “When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.” ~ David Allen
  74. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” ~ Michael Jordan
  75. “You may delay, but time will not.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
  76. “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.” ~ Denis Waitley
  77. “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost
  78. “If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” ~ Donald Trump
  79. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
  80. “Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.” ~ Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe
  81. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” ~ Franz Kafka
  82. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” ~ Zig Ziglar
  83. “To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.” ~ Peter McWilliams
  84. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” ~ Charles Darwin
  85. “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
  86. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” ~ Muhammad Ali
  87. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” ~ Dale Carnegie
  88. “Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” ~ Paul Gauguin
  89. “What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.” ~ Susan Cain
  90. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” ~ Henry Ford
  91. “Think of many things; do one.” ~ Portuguese proverb
  92. “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” ~ Leo Babauta
  93. “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” ~ Laurence Sterne
  94. “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.” ~ Thomas J. Watson
  95. “One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make those moments of procrastination more useful when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.” ~ Joshua Foer

Key takeaways

And there you have it, folks! This a compilation of some of the most inspiring and effective quotes to help you stay motivated and productive. These quotes are not just words on paper, but powerful tools to help you achieve your goals and unleash your true potential.

Remember, motivation is key to productivity, and by harnessing the power of these quotes, you can push through even the toughest challenges and accomplish great things. So go ahead, take these quotes to heart, and let them inspire you to greatness. With hard work, determination, and a little bit of motivation, the sky's the limit!

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