Productivity Quotes

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

~ Ashish Patel

Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Consider everything an experiment.

~ Corita Kent

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

~ Corita Kent

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

~ Corita Kent

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

~ Corita Kent

[Women] are conditioned to ever prove ourselves, as if our value is contingent on our ability to meet the expectations of others. As if our worth is a tank forever draining that we must fill and fill. We complete tasks and in some half-buried way believe that if we don’t, we will be discredited. Sometimes, this is true. But here is a question: Do you want to be a reliable source of literary art (or whatever writing you do), or of prompt emails?

~ Melissa Febos

Anybody that does not value time does not value life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water--whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

~ Adriana Trigiani

Touch paper only once.

~ Robert Allen

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.

~ Criss Jami

Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren't for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money.

~ Richie Norton

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Create with the heart, build with the mind.

~ Criss Jami

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free.

~ Laure Lacornette

Resist the short term temptation of procrastination, the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals.

~ Noel Dejesus

Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

~ Simon Sinek

Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.

~ Dee Dee Artner

Good well-being promotes good productivity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your Attention is your Investment. The Smarter you Invest, The Better Your ROI will be.

~ Rehan Gillani

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those pagans who were visibly virtuous or saintly. Similarly, in contemporary society effort is not productive unless it is done at the behest of a boss, and economists have a hard time dealing with the obvious usefulness of people when they are outside the corporate control of a corporation, volunteer agency, or labour camp.

~ Ivan Illich

Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their communities to develop their God-given talents as fully as rich kids. For economic productivity and growth, our country needs as much talent as we can find, and we certainly can’t afford to waste it. The opportunity gap imposes on all of us both real costs and what economists term “opportunity costs.

~ Robert D. Putnam

If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.

~ Vishwas Chavan

The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind, rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Physical activity promotes high productivity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.

~ Dee Dee Artner

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that’s amazing,” he explains. “It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.

~ David Heinemeier Hansson

The only doors that open are the ones you knock on.

~ Scott Marquart

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

~ Herbert Hoover