Leicester have enjoyed a remarkable campaign and are five points clear of Tottenham at the top of the table with four games remaining.
They are already guaranteed a top-three finish and Champions League football next season, and Ranieri say his focus is now on winning the title.
"It is this year or never more," he told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.
"We achieved the Champions League - a great achievement for everyone but now we try to win the title with all our strength, all our heart, our soul, everything.
"We need eight points and we are champions, and we try to do this. I said to my players, 'now is the right moment to push to the end.'"
Leicester winning the title ahead of some of the more traditional challengers has been compared to Nottingham Forest's achievements in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Under Brian Clough, Forest won the then First Division title in 1978 in what was their first season in the top flight, before lifting successive European Cups.
What Leicester have achieved so far has been described as a football miracle, but former Chelsea boss Ranieri said: "It's not a miracle. It is a strange moment.
"This is something in special circumstances and that is why I say 'now or never more', because next season will be different. The big teams will be stronger and better but of course we are doing something special this season."
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