So like me you too are interested in reading quotes to stay motivated.

 

Quotes give you a boost and make you feel energized .

 

Am I right ?

 

If you are nodding yes then this blog will surely be of help to you .

 

Keep reading to get the most out of it .

 

Farnsworth, dean of the University of Texas School of Law says-

‘’There is power in the words themselves.’’

According to him, people have an “appetite for well-expressed wisdom, motivational or otherwise.”

 

Words are known to have a great effect on your mind. They are more memorable than anything else.

They can inspire you, instill hope in you and motivate you.

 

And what is better than sayings and quotes from the wise and famous people who are better than you, to empower and inspire you and bring the best out in you when you feel low.

By following in their footsteps you too can become successful in whatever you do.

 

In this blog post, I will be sharing some wonderful quotes from some of the greatest people on the planet.

 

But first, let us dive deep into what are quotes and why they are important.

 

 

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WHAT ARE QUOTES AND WHY THEY ARE IMPORTANT ?

‘’A good quote has the power to inspire action and motivate you to keep going when you need it most.’’

 

 

A quote is a repetition of someone else’s statements or thoughts exactly  as it was said by a person.

They are used to cite something as  proof  or supporting facts or are used in similar situations like the ones faced by great people or to influence someone.

They express the viewpoints of others in very few words.

 

These are the reasons why everyone prefers to read quotes to inspire and empower themselves :

 

• They are a very good source of daily inspiration and empowerment because they give you a high and uplift you when you feel low or procrastinate. Inspiration is very important because inspiration motivates you to take action and motivation without inspiration is of no use.

• They give you wisdom from the experiences of famous people who have gone through similar situations and to whom you could not have had any access. Usually, these sayings are from reflection on some keen insight.

• They can help you to understand a subject better.

• All Humans have some aspirations. We all self-select. Self select means “to select oneself as opposed to being selected  : to-opt in or out of something (such as a group, activity, or category)  according to one’s personality, interests, etc.” We look up to and emulate leaders. The desire to identify with others who are more successful than us is a primal urge. When a leader or celebrity says something, we are wired to identify with that person, to select ourselves to ally ourselves with those beliefs.

• One thought leads to the next and next. It is like a chain reaction. Quotes can spark thoughts, leading to a chain reaction of thoughts. Our brains light up when we read inspirational quotes. When our mind is conditioned, so is our behavior. Quotes affect our subconscious mind, which is the seat of creativity and forms a major part of our entire mind. So when the subconscious mind is constantly filled with positive commands our outlook and personality also become positive. It changes our entire thought process, directing us towards a positive path. Inspiring and motivating quotes not only uplift us but guide us towards a positive direction.

Here are 131  Quotes on Productivity to inspire and motivate you in your role as a  New Manager.

 

1.’‘Given more tools and technology improving productivity can still be a challenge at work. It is because productivity requires an extra kick, which we know as inspiration.”

Stephen King

 

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

Paul J Meyer

 

3.”Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

 Napoleon Hill

 

4. ”Start by doing what is necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

Saint Francis of Assisi

 

5.”Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.” 

Lee Iacocca

 

6. ”I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channeling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.”

Ben Stiller

 

7.”You find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” 

Warren Buffett

 

8.”While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”

Henry C. Link

 

 9.”The productivity of a workgroup seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.”

Ken Blanchard

 

10.”The trick to maximizing your team’s productivity is to create a workspace that’s flexible, so it can be altered according to the ever-changing needs of the company and its team members.”

Neil Blumenthal

 

11.”Positive and engaged brains are a company’s greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.”

Shawn Achor

 

12.”Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin

 

13.”I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we feel most effective.’‘

Mark Manson

 

14.”The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.”

Mitch Kapor

 

15. ”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 Schnerson

 

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

Leo Babauta

 

17. “On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.” 

Evelyn Underhill

 

18. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus” 

Alexander Graham Bell

 

19. ” Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

Criss Jami, Killosophy

 

20. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” 

Theodore Roosevelt

 

21. ”There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.”

Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr 

 

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

Thomas Sowell

 

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

Oprah Winfrey

 

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

Franz Kafka

 

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

David Allen

 

26 .“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway’’

Earl Nightingale.”

 

27.”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

Henry Ford

 

28. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

Jean Babptist Poqeulin (Moliere)

 

29. “When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”

Karen E. Quinones Miller

 

30.“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”

Tricia Cunningham

 

31.“Starve your distraction and feed your focus.”

Unknown

 

32“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

.Winston Churchill

 

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

Tom Peters

 

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

Benjamin E. Mays

 

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

Henry David Thoreau

 

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

Bruce Lee

 

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

Warren Buffet

 

38.”There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.”

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

 

39 .“Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”

Paul J. Meyer

 

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

Tom Peters

 

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

Stephen Covey

 

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

Bruce Lee

 

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

Jack Ma

 

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

Peter Drucker

 

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

Muhammad Ali

 

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

Picasso 

 

47.“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 

 

48.“It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”

Henry David Thoreau

 

49.“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins .”

Benjamin Franklin

 

50.“Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. Exhaustion affects your quality and productivity.”

Jeff Vander Meer

 

51.“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

Warren Buffett

 

52.“Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that’s impeding forward motion.”

David Allen

 

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

Henry David Thoreau

 

54.“There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.”

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

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

Tom Peters

 

56. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

Babe Ruth

 

57 ”Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.”

Adam Grant

 

58 ”Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.”

Miguel McKelvey

 

59 ”’The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

Peter Drucker

 

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

Albert Einstein

 

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

Wayne Gretzky

 

62 “The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

Leo Rosten

 

63 ”When you care about people’s happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity.”

Tim Cook

 

64 ”When you care about people’s happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity.”

Tim Cook

 

65 ”Productivity doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.”

Caroline Ghosn

 

66”Early rising will enhance your productivity, improve your mental outlook, and give you time to exercise, catch up on email, or just have breakfast with your family. In short, if you want to become more successful, it’s a good idea to jump out of bed earlier.”

John Rampton

 

67”You may think having a cluttered desk isn’t that big of a deal. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Disorganization can stunt your professional growth and decrease your productivity.”

John Rampton

 

68 .”Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.”

Robin S. Sharma

 

69 ”Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.”

Amy Cuddy

 

70”Email is familiar. It’s comfortable. It’s easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.”

Ryan Holmes

 

71”A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki – it’s more valuable than e-mail for running a company – and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.”

Garrett Camp

 

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

Stephen King

 

73 ”The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It’s a huge opportunity.”

Jane Pauley

 

74”Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called ‘bad’ for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they’re detrimental to our health.”

John Rampton

 

75”Don’t count the days. Make the days count Don’t think “I’ve got this many days to achieve this”, but instead “How much can I do in each of these days.”

Muhammad Ali

 

76”Given more tools and technology, improving Productivity  can still be a challenge at work. It is because productivity requires an extra kick, which we know as inspiration.”

Stephen King

 

77”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

 

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

Tony Robbins

 

79“Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

Eric Thomas

 

80“If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.”
Dee Dee Artner

 

81 “Don’t interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.”

 Dee Dee Artner

 

82“People who understand how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom.”

Sunday Adelaja

 

83 ”Don’t count the days. Make the days count Don’t think “I’ve got this many days to achieve this”, but instead “How much can I do in each of these days.”

 Muhammad Ali

 

84”You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

 Warren Buffett

 

85”Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

Einstein

 

86”Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.”

 Mahatma Gandhi

 

87“Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily”
 Sunday Adelaja

 

88“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”

David Allen

 

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

Seth Godin

 

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

Aristotle

 

91”Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

Bill Gates

 

92”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 the talent and know-how to use it.”

 Frank Sinatra

 

93”What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” 

Tim Ferriss

 

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

David Allen

 

95”The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

Mark Twain 

 

96”Action is the foundational key to all success.”

Pablo Picasso

 

97”Never mistake motion for action.”

Ernest Hemingway

 

98”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

 

99”Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.”

Denis Waitley

 

100”You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Martin Luther King

 

101”If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”

Barack Obama

 

102 ”Big ideas come from the unconscious. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process.”

David Ogilvy

 

103”People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.”

Mark Zuckerberg

 

104 ”My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, “Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.”

Richard Branson

 

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

Thomas Sowell

 

106“Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.”  

Noel DeJesus

 

107 “Where your attention goes, your time goes”

Idowu Koyenikan

 

108”Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost.”

Usain Bolt

 

109 Knowledge is the source of wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes innovation.

Peter Drucker

 

110 Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There’s no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

 

111 Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

112 “Time management is about life management.”

Idowu Koyenikan 

 

113 “Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law”

 Douglas Hofstadter

 

114 “Consider everything an experiment.”

Corita Kent

 

115 “You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it “done.”

 David Allen

 

116 “Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

Eric Thomas

 

117 “A bad day with little progress is better than a great day with no progress.

 

 118 ”Strive for progress not perfection. Perfect cannot be challenged. Perfect cannot grow.’‘

 

119 ”Progress means it is within your reach to grow. It is a true gift.”

Millycent Mashele

 

120.“Measure progress — not the time that you’re working.”

Frank Sonnenberg

 

121“Sometimes, getting it done is better than perfect.”

Anonymous

 

122″Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.”

 

123“There’s no world for you, there’s an entire world in you. Make it alive or rent a life in other people’s worlds.”

Kangoma Kindembo

 

124“To make man superman, add the word ‘super’ to the word ‘man’; or meditation to his day.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

 

125 “The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word “No.”

Shane Parrish

 

126 “Successful people never stop learning”

 Anna Chui 

 

127 “Successful people embrace difficulties”

Anna Chui

 

128 “A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.”

Rick Riordan

 

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

Theodore Roosevelt 

 

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

Nathan W. Morris

 

131 ”Make each day your masterpiece.”

 John Wooden

 

CONCLUSION: 

 

Motivation is important to productivity, but without inspiration staying motivated is difficult.

 

 

To be productive, take inspired action daily and put these quotes into practice.

 

Learn from the words and work on your minds.

 

Open your mind to fresh perspectives by reading these words of wisdom and give yourself that kick to go that extra mile.

 

Focus on doing one thing at a time.

 

Never be afraid of failure and learn from it.

 

I hope that these quotes have been helpful  in empowering you.

 

To be Productive with your time and efforts  and work smarter, read this post –” 24 SMART WORKING TIPS THAT WILL MAKE NEW MANAGERS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL ”

 

Which of these quotes on Productivity has inspired you? Leave comments below.

 

Babita Sharma

Leadership Coach

www.leadwithpassion.co.in

 

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