Eric Thomas Quotes

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.

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!

Done is better than perfect if perfect ain't done.

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

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!

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

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

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

And when you finish reading, read some more.

We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.

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.

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!

You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.

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

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!

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

It's not easy, but it's simple.

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

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

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

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

This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!

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

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.

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

I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!

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

To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

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

What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.

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

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

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

I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.

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

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

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

Be phenomenal or be forgotten!

Because when I'm a copycat I'm never good! But when I'm Eric Thomas, I'm great! I'm great at what I do!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful.

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

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.

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

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

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.

Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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).

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

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

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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!

It ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to persevere! Willing to stick in there! Willing to fight!

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

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

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

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

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.

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

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

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

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!

No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people DON'T believe in your dream,Never give up!

Information changes situations.

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.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.

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.

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

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

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

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

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

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

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.