Eric Thomas Quotes

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

Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.

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

That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!

I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

If you're going to be free! You're going to have to free YOURSELF!

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

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

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

Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about!

Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency!

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

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.

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!

Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality.

Every principle has a promise.

I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

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.

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.

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

Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day!

Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.

You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!

I think my greatest strengths are my hands. I am also good at getting separation from the defender and finding ways to get open. I am also a good route runner.

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.

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

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!

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

I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!

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

Understand the value of work and know that you get out of life what you earn. Some things have to be taken, its not given to you, they are not handing out multimillion dollar contracts or degrees, you have to use your brain!

You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!

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

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

When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

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.

So change your mindset. Change how you see pain. I want you to welcome it!

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

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

Some of you, your success has messed you up! You've lost your bite! You're not hungry anymore!