Here’s the collection of quotes from celebrities, athletes to inspire you to touch the great heights

This article features 110 quotes, to boost your productivity and morale.

1. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

Tim Ferriss

2. “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie

3. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”

Franz Kafka

4. “It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”

Nathan W. Morris

5. “My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”

Francine Jay

6. “You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.”

David Allen

7. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Wayne Gretzky

8. “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”

Leo Babauta

9. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”

Albert Einstein

10. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”

Michael Jordan

11. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”

Benjamin E. Mays

12. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

Bruce Lee

13. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

Peter Drucker

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

Walt Disney

15. “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.”

Seth Godin

16. “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

Warren Buffett

17. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

Steve Jobs

18. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

Oprah Winfrey

19. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

Albert Einstein

20. “Lost time is never found again.”

Benjamin Franklin

21. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”

Coco Chanel

22. “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”

Oscar Wilde

23. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

Muhammad Ali

24. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”

Picasso

25. “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”

Peter Drucker

26. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

Stephen King

27. “The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”

Ronald Reagan

28. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.”

Herb Kelleher

29. “You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

Tony Robbins

30. “If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one.”

Jack Ma

31. “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”

Peter Block

32. “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

33. “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

Pablo Picasso

34. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

Peter Drucker

35. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”

Bruce Lee

36. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

37. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Stephen Covey

38. “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.”

Robert Quillen

39. “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

Warren Buffett

40. “Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”

Stephen Hawking

41. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”

Paul J. Meyer

42. “Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.”

Frank Sinatra

43. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

Bruce Lee

44. “It’s not knowing what to do; it’s doing what you know.”

Tony Robbins

45. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.”

Oprah Winfrey

46. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

Coco Chanel

47. “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.”

Thomas Sowell

48. “Never mistake motion for action.”

Ernest Hemingway

49. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”

Pablo Picasso

50. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

Stephen King

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

Walt Disney

52. “Surfaces are not for storage. Rather, surfaces are for activity, and should be kept clear at all other times.”

Francine Jay

53. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.”

Martha Stewart

54. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

David Allen

55. “Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.”

Nathan W. Morris

56. “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”

Tom Peters

57. “Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”

Franz Kafka

58. “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.”

Warren Buffett

59. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last long. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.”

Zig Ziglar

60. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Theodore Roosevelt

61. “Time management is not a peripheral activity or skill. It is the core skill upon which everything else in life depends.”

Brian Tracy

62. “The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.”

Henry David Thoreau

63. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

64. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Stephen Covey

65. “Drive thy business or it will drive thee.”

Benjamin Franklin

66. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.”

Nolan Bushnell

67. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

Peter Drucker

68. “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.”

Margaret Bonnano

69. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.”

Martha Stewart

70. “The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”

Dennis Waitley

71. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

Stephen King

72. “It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.”

Tony Robbins

73. “There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.”

C.J. Walker

74. “For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.”

Bill O’ Reilly

75. 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

76. “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”

Peter Block

77. “It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?”

Henry David Thoreau

78. “To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

79. “Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.”

John Todd

80. “I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber:

“If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing.”

William Pitt Chatham

81. “It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom”

Aristotle

82.“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

David Allen

83. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”

Peter Drucker

84. “I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”

Donald Trump

85. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Stephen Covey

86. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

87. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed”

Peter Drucker

88. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

Tim Ferriss

89. “Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.”

Caleb C. Colton

90. “The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.”

John W. Gardner

91. “He that rises late must trot all day”

Benjamin Franklin

92. “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions”

John Randolph

93.“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”

Bruce Lee

94. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

Peter Drucker

95. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”

Oprah Winfrey

96. “You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance”

Lee Iacocca

97. “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.”

Benjamin Franklin

98. “We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.”

Herb Kelleher

99. “There’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.”

Shia LaBeouf

100. “Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation”

Brian Tracy

101. “Think of many things; do one.”

Portuguese proverb

102. “Lost time is never found again.”

Benjamin Franklin

103. “In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it’s no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we’re worth”

Ellen Sue Stern

104. “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

Laurence Sterne

105.“The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.”

Thomas J. Watson

106. “If you are interested in balancing work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead, make your work more pleasurable.”

Donald Trump

107. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Benjamin Franklin

108. “Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.”

Preston Ni

109. “Both good and bad days should end with productivity. You mood affairs should never influence your work.”

Greg Evans

110. “Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”

Peter Drucker

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