Below are the best quotes we could find featuring marcus aurelius about productivity.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments. Because dying, too, is one of our assignments in life.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
Confine yourself to the present.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.
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