Eric Thomas Quotes

Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

If you can look up, you can get up.

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

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

You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!

Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct.

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

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

If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.

If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

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

Every morning I wake up, it's kind of like wow, I don't know what happened or how it happened, I can't put my finger on it, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful to be alive. To spend one more day with my family. One more day to make my dreams become a reality. One more day to help somebody. So the first thought on my mind is, thank you god for another day.

When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.

I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!

I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.

You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!

You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.

To be successful, you only need one person to believe!

I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.

And when you finish reading, read some more.

To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Nobody's as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that.

Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.

If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.

It may not be given to you. But if you're ready to earn it, the universe is yours.

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.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

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

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

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

Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today!

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

You can't quit or give up before you get it!

I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

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.

I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.

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!

Hard and impossible are two different things!

Stop being a victim and waiting for somebody else to open up an opportunity for you!

I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank!

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

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.

When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average!