Zig Ziglar Quotes

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.

There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.

Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.