Best Productivity Quotes

Looking for some productivity inspiration to help increase your productivity? We’ve found the best quotes on productivity and compiled them here. Having a quote or a mantra that reminds us to stay focused on the important things can be extremely helpful. Productivity quotes can be used to fire up your team or just to motivate yourself.

Productivity quotes relating to prioritization

The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

— Stephen Covey

You always have time for the things you put first.

— Unknown

Nobody is too busy. It’s just a matter of priorities.

— Unknown

Good things happen when you set your priorities straight.

— Scott Caan

If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder, don’t work harder.

— Tim Ferris

Set your priorities right, because if you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.

— Proverb

You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.

— Seth Godin

Don’t be busy. Be productive.

— Proverb

Productivity quotes relating to taking action

A year from now, you’ll wish you had started today.

— Karen Lamb

The way to get started is to quit talking, and begin doing.

— Walt Disney

What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

— John Ruskin

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

— Tony Robbins

Action is the foundational key to all success.

— Pablo Picasso

You are what you do. Not what you say you’ll do.

— Carl Gustav Jung

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

— John F. Kennedy

Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.

— Steve Maraboli

Productivity quotes relating to perseverance and persistence

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are possible.

— Thomas Fowell Buxton

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

— Benjamin Franklin

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

— Confuscius

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas Edison

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

— Jim Watkins

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.

— Robert Collier

It’s not that I’m smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

— Albert Einstein

Other great productivity quotes

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

— Oprah Winfrey