Ever wondered where those long hours at work went by while you’re still struggling to be productive and meet deadlines that are inching closer every second?
There are several reasons why you are aspiring to be productive at work, but failing to do so. It could be procrastination, poor time-management, ineffective working methods and flows, or maybe you’re not motivated enough.
Here are 21 quotes on productivity to nudge you in the right direction and motivate you to be more productive for the rest of the year:
1) “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”
-Paul J. Meyer
2) “You don’t get paid for the hour, you get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”
-Jim Rohn
3) “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
-Oprah Winfrey
4) “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
5) Life’s gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.”
-Bryant McGill
6) “Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time.”
-Vivek Naik
7) “One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.”
-Joshua Foer
8) “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
-Sam Levenson
9) “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
-Tony Robbins
10) “Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.”
-Robin Sharma
11) “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
-David Allen
12) “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”
-Nathan W. Morris
13) “Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation.”
-Brian Tracy
14) “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
-Zig Ziglar
15) “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”
-Tom Peters
16) “No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.”
-Brian Tracy
17) “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.”
-Denis Waitley
18) “Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
-Paul Gauguin
19) “When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.”
-Menachem Mendel Scheerson
20) “Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.”
-Dan S. Kennedy
21) “Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.”
-Gretchen Rubin
Written by Gagan Dhawan
