Top 200 Productivity Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes

2. “One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

3. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Discipline Quotes

4. “Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Business Quotes, Achievement Quotes

5. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Empowering Quotes

6. “Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Time Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

7. “Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

8. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Quotes About Money, Wise Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

9. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Business Quotes, Goal Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

10. “Discipline equals freedom.”

— Jocko Willink

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

11. “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Famous Quotes, Quotes About Work, Good Morning Quotes

12. “Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes, Impact Quotes

13. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

14. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Life Quotes, Time Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

15. “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Quotes for Work, Efficiency Quotes

16. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

— Charles Dickens

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Time Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

17. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Deep Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

18. “Start with the end in mind.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Future Quotes

19. “A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Empowering Quotes

20. “If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Coaching Quotes

21. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Time Quotes, Action Quotes

22. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work, Efficiency Quotes

23. “Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Confidence Quotes

24. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Success Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Empowering Quotes

25. “Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!”

— Grant Cardone

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Financial Success Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes

26. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

27. “Delegate – work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn’t depleted.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Coaching Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Smart Quotes

28. “Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.”

— Shawn Achor

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

29. “Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.”

— Tom Peters

Also featured in: Risk-Taking Quotes, Momentum Quotes, Quotes About Acting, Overthinking Quotes

30. “Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.”

— J. R. D. Tata

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Efficiency Quotes, Quotes About Work

31. “Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.”

— Stephen R. Covey

32. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Failure Quotes, Action Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

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

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Time Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

34. “It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

35. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Values Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Achievement Quotes

36. “Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ‘what is the most valuable use of my time right now?’”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Professional Growth Quotes, Efficiency Quotes, Time Management Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

37. “Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn’t make it productive or worthwhile.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Efficiency Quotes

38. “If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Quotes About Work

39. “Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”

— Greg McKeown

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work, Efficiency Quotes

40. “Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Goal Setting Quotes, Career Development Quotes

41. “Focusing is about saying No.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Famous Quotes, IT Quotes

42. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Discipline Quotes

43. “Activity leads to productivity.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Effort Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Progress Quotes

44. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Time Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

45. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Business Quotes, Goal Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes

46. “Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Goal Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Empowering Quotes

47. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

— Steven Pressfield

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Practice Quotes, Artist Quotes

48. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Positive Motivation Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

49. “I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”

— Elon Musk

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Learning Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

50. “Free time is the enemy of progress.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Progress Quotes