Top 200 Productivity Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Happiness inspires productivity.”

— Shawn Achor

102. “The checklist is one of the most high-powered productivity tools ever discovered.”

— Brian Tracy

103. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

104. “Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.”

— Tim Ferriss

105. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

— Scott Belsky

106. “Get maximum effect from minimum effort.”

— Bruce Lee

107. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

— Andrew Carnegie

108. “If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You’re 100% better.”

— Ken Carter

109. “Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.”

— John C. Maxwell

110. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”

— Henry Ford

111. “Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

112. “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

— Brian Tracy

113. “Real artists ship.”

— Steve Jobs

114. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

— Michael Jordan

115. “Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.”

— T. Harv Eker

116. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”

— Florence Nightingale

117. “Failure cannot cope with persistence.”

— Napoleon Hill

118. “The only time I get depressed is when I am not being productive. It’s when I am not accomplishing or doing or contributing in any way. Nothing makes me less happy than relaxation and sitting around with nothing to do.”

— Casey Neistat

119. “The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.”

— Ray Lewis

120. “Creativity produces productivity.”

— Mike Vance

121. “Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.”

— Swami Vivekananda

122. “Consider everything an experiment.”

— Corita Kent

123. “Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.”

— Napoleon Hill

124. “Knowledge applied is productivity.”

— Peter F. Drucker

125. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

— Pablo Picasso

126. “You can do anything, but not everything.”

— David Allen

127. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

— Jimmy Johnson

128. “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

— Alan Watts

129. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

130. “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”

— Harvey MacKay

131. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Gary Player

132. “You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.”

— David Allen

133. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

— Anne Frank

134. “The sofa is the enemy of productivity.”

— Demetri Martin

135. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

— Henry Ford

136. “Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.”

— Warren Buffett

137. “To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.”

— Corita Kent

138. “Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.”

— Jim Rohn

139. “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”

— Peter Block

140. “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

— Nolan Bushnell

141. “Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!”

— Zig Ziglar

142. “You become what you think about most of the time.”

— Brian Tracy

143. “The best motivation is self-motivation.”

— Jim Rohn

144. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”

— W. Clement Stone

145. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

— Thomas Jefferson

146. “Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.”

— Harvey MacKay

147. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Thomas A. Edison

148. “People who feel good about themselves produce good results.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

149. “The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.”

— Shannon Wheeler

150. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

— Bruce Lee