Eric Thomas Quotes & Sayings

I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life. — Eric Thomas

I've gotta breathe it, I've gotta eat it, I've gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want. — Eric Thomas

Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful. — Eric Thomas

You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful! — Eric Thomas

Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be. — Eric Thomas

My values about learning changed. I realized that information changes situations. — Eric Thomas

I am a living witness, that if you are brave enough to dream it, it CAN happen — Eric Thomas

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. — Eric Thomas

Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror — Eric Thomas

If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want! — Eric Thomas

If you ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset. — Eric Thomas

When you have something good ... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you. — Eric Thomas

This is your year to accomplish what you've never accomplished before. — Eric Thomas

When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average! — Eric Thomas

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do. — Eric Thomas

Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor. — Eric Thomas

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be. — Eric Thomas

If you can look up, you can get up. — Eric Thomas

You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it! — Eric Thomas

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to. — Eric Thomas

At the end of pain is SUCCESS! — Eric Thomas

Sometimes in life, you have to hit back! It's not always gonna be easy! — Eric Thomas

If you want to finish, sometimes you can't just finish. You gotta finish fast! — Eric Thomas

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement! — Eric Thomas

At some point in life you have to face your fears. — Eric Thomas

You can get through this. you are bigger than your pain, don't give up don't give in — Eric Thomas

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life. — Eric Thomas

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted ... Sometimes it's gonna hurt! — Eric Thomas

The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities. — Eric Thomas

For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream. — Eric Thomas

If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing. — Eric Thomas

I just want my kids to see that when you serve and put other people first and invest in other people it will come back! — Eric Thomas

Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me. — Eric Thomas

You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change. — Eric Thomas

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me! — Eric Thomas

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something! — Eric Thomas

I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke ... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference! — Eric Thomas

When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us. — Eric Thomas

Be phenomenal or be forgotten! — Eric Thomas

There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it! — Eric Thomas

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life. — Eric Thomas

As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat. — Eric Thomas

Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever. — Eric Thomas

So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you. — Eric Thomas

Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it's got to hurt. — Eric Thomas

We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people ... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do. — Eric Thomas

You are upgrading your technology, and you've not upgraded yourself! — Eric Thomas

Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it ... Or you'll never have'em. — Eric Thomas

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA. — Eric Thomas

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons. — Eric Thomas

If there is no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm. — Eric Thomas

When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way! — Eric Thomas

You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice. — Eric Thomas

To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become — Eric Thomas

I have learned over the years that the higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning. For example, if your emotions are at the highest level of 10, your ability to reason is at a 0. If it's a 9 then your reasoning is a 1. I am not suggesting that emotions don't have their place, but taking actions based purely on emotions is dangerous and could cost you everything. — Eric Thomas

I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything. — Eric Thomas

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people. — Eric Thomas

It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to! — Eric Thomas

I'm discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do so the worker wakes up at 8am but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen. — Eric Thomas

Apply the ABC's of success to your life. Ask, Believe and Claim It. — Eric Thomas

You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move(ment). — Eric Thomas

Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon. — Eric Thomas

When you die, Die on "E" ... Leave no Dream behind ... Leave NO Opportunity behind! Accomplish everything you can. — Eric Thomas

You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are. — Eric Thomas

Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it! — Eric Thomas

Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other. — Eric Thomas

Success, meaningful success, begins when we take ownership and actively take responsibility for our part in the shortcomings of our life. — Eric Thomas

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power — Eric Thomas

I used to use hip hop hooks as a way to attract young people and get their attention and I knew they were familiar with the lyrics. A big part about learning is really making connections so in telling young people ... — Eric Thomas

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness. — Eric Thomas

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher. — Eric Thomas

Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got! — Eric Thomas

I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game. — Eric Thomas

When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time! — Eric Thomas

I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you! — Eric Thomas

If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality! — Eric Thomas

I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment. — Eric Thomas

You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself! — Eric Thomas

When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step! — Eric Thomas

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut ... — Eric Thomas

Hard and impossible are two different things! — Eric Thomas

Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress — Eric Thomas

Done is better than perfect if perfect ain't done. — Eric Thomas

The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose. — Eric Thomas

Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back! — Eric Thomas

Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community. — Eric Thomas

Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them! — Eric Thomas

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror! — Eric Thomas

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously. — Eric Thomas

I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE — Eric Thomas

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions. — Eric Thomas

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness ... — Eric Thomas

We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate. — Eric Thomas

Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort. — Eric Thomas

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work. — Eric Thomas

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. — Eric Thomas

Every day you say 'No' to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months — Eric Thomas

You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change. — Eric Thomas

Every single thing I go through, I remember I was homeless, and I draw from it! — Eric Thomas

The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset! — Eric Thomas