We searched far and wide for the best quotes about productivity. We hope these great productivity quotes and sayings will help inspire and empower you. Enjoy!
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
– Stephen King
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
– David Allen
“How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly.”
– Jarod Kintz
“Consider everything an experiment.”
– Corita Kent
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
– Francine Jay
“Create with the heart; build with the mind”
– Criss Jami
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
– Leo Babauta
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”
– Franz Kafka
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
– David Allen
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.”
– Sydney Smith
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”
– Henry C. Link
“Never mistake motion for action.”
– Ernest Hemingway
