Zig Ziglar Quotes

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

I think that people can have their hand in as many different things as they want. You've just got to put your mind to it and just do it.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

What has not wasting time impaired?

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.