Zig Ziglar Quotes

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they're baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must!

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Hope is not a strategy.

I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.

You can't think about what you're going to do in the future until you've done things in the present.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool.

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

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.