#Productivity Quotes

“Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.”

“Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.”

“Genius has no taste for weaving sand.”

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”

“Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.”

“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.”

“Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.”

“Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.”

“Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.”

“If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”

“Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.”

“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.”

“The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.”

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

“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!”

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”

“As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.”

“Quit counting time and start making time count”

“Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.”

“Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other”

“Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?”

“Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.”

“Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits”

“When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.”

“Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.”

“Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.”

“We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.”

“The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.”

“Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.”

“So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.”

“The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.”

“Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task”

“Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.”

“I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

“We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”

“The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.”

“Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.”

“Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.”

“Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good trend of the future. But we do have to have a system that, as output of goods and services keeps increasing per capita, that it takes care of the people who are willing to work and really are not getting by very well with a family on a 40-hour week.”

“Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.”

“We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.”

“The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.”

“The best way to deal with procrastination is to postpone it.”

“The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.”

“Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.”

“Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”

“Where focus goes, energy flows.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”