100+ Productivity Quotes to Supercharge Your Success

Let’s supercharge your productivity with these wise words of people who lived a successful life and summarized their experiences in the form of quotes to help us in our journey.

Productivity Quotes About Time Management

• Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ~ M. Scott Peck
• I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. ~ Golda Meir
• Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. ~ Brian Tracy
• Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. ~ Napoleon Hill
• The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. ~ Mike Murdock
• Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!! ~ Anthony Robbins
• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life. ~ Alan Lakein
• The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained. ~ Alexis Carrel
• Don’t count every hour in the day. Make every hour in the day count. ~ Alfred Binet
• If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
• Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. ~ Art Buchwald
• You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future. ~ Ashley Ormon
• You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton
• To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~ Eva Young

Productivity Quotes About Focus and Discipline

• Only the disciplined ones are purely free in life and the undisciplined are slaves to their moods and passions. ~ Eliud Kipchoge
•  Freedom without discipline is chaos. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
•  Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses. ~ Brian Tracy
• Having self-discipline and willpower is the ability to do difficult or unpleasant things because those things are better for your well-being in the long run. ~ Peter Hollins
• Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work. ~ Brian Tracy
• There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work. ~ Elbert Hubbard
• Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. ~ Will Rogers
• The successful warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee
• You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast. ~ Jack Dorsey

Productivity Quotes About Overcoming Procrastination

• Someday is not a day of the week. ~ Janet Dailey
• A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~ Karen Lamb
• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~ Pablo Picasso
• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• One of the best escapes from the prison of procrastination is to take even the smallest step toward your goal. ~ Denis Waitley
• A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. ~ George S. Patton
• If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. ~ Robert Collier
• Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up. ~ Brené Brown

Productivity Quotes About Hard Work and Perseverance

• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. ~ Robert Collier
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell
• Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. ~ Tim Notke
• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~ Thomas Jefferson
• Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise. ~ Frank Ocean
• The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. ~ Swami Sivananda
• Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
• Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. ~ Rikki Rogers
• Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, and then succeed on purpose. ~ G.K. Nielson
• The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ~ Thomas Edison
• It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius
• Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ~ Walter Elliot

Productivity Quotes About Creativity and Innovation

•  Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams
• What is now proved was once only imagined. ~ William Blake
• There is no innovation and creativity without failure. ~ Brene Brown
• Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought. ~ Albert Einstein
• Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working. ~ Henri Matisse
• The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
• Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ~ Mary Lou Cook
• Create with the heart, build with the mind. ~ Criss Jami
• You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~ Maya Angelou
• The creative adult is the child who survived. ~ Ursula Le Guin
• Creativity is a wild mind and disciplined eyes. ~ Dorothy Parker

Productivity Quotes About Success and Achievement

• All our dreams can come true; if we have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney
• However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. ~ Stephen Hawking
• It always seems impossible until it’s done. ~ Nelson Mandela
• People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. ~ Harvey MacKay
• Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up. ~Dwayne Johnson
• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ~ Oprah Winfrey
• There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there — you must go beyond them. ~ Bruce Lee
• Fortune befriends the bold. ~ Emily Dickinson
• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ~ Eddie Cantor
• Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. ~ Suzy Kassem
• If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ~ Milton Berle
• Failure is success in progress. ~ Albert Einstein
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way. ~ Vera Wang
• Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. ~ Jon Bon Jovi
• I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. ~ Michael Jordan
• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Humorous Productivity Quotes

• Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished. ~ Leslie Nielsen
• The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. ~ Oscar Wilde
• The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished. ~ Groucho Marx
• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ~ Niels Bohr
• Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers
• Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work. ~ David Ogilvy
• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. ~ Zig Ziglar
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Edison
• It’s like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there. ~ Josh Billings
• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ Vince Lombardi
• A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure. ~ Henry Kissinger
• The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time. ~ Joe Girard