Eric Thomas famous quotes

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

#Long #Mediocrity #Currents

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.
-- Eric Thomas

#Thinking #Hands #Way

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

#Thinking #Years #Focus

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

#Jobs #Play #Fields

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

#Inspirational #Success #Succeed

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

#Decision #Advice #Would Be

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.
-- Eric Thomas

#Life #Sleep #Successful

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.
-- Eric Thomas

#Life Happens #Victim

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

#Dream #Opportunity #Accomplish

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.
-- Eric Thomas

#Successful #Doctors #People

Be phenomenal or be forgotten!
-- Eric Thomas

#Forgotten #Phenomenal

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

#Successful #Boards #Gone

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
-- Eric Thomas

#Life #Feel Good #Habit

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

#Dream #Real #People

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

#Positive #Next #Pressure

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

#Sacrifice #Able #Moments

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

#Responsibility #Decision #Action

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.
-- Eric Thomas

#Passion #Mma #Alarms

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

#Environment #Change Yourself

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

#Mean #Feelings #Momentum

Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!
-- Eric Thomas

#Consistency #Sometimes #Hardest

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

#Work #Hard Work

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

#Life #Play #Risk

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

#Excellence #Mediocrity #Shooting

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

#Directors #Executives

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

#Dream #Stay Strong #Giving Up

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

#Life #Faces #Face Your Fears

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

#Life #Hurt #Sometimes

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

#Falling In Love #Fall #Process

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!
-- Eric Thomas

#Stay Strong #Commitment #Sacrifice

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

#Life #Mirrors #Games

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

#Character #Who I Am #World

Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship.  People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple.  No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.
-- Eric Thomas

#Simple #Greatness #People

Every principle has a promise.
-- Eric Thomas

#Promise #Principles

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

#Moving

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

#Mirrors #Doe #Looks

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

#Cutting #Shining #Want

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.
-- Eric Thomas

#Running #Pain #Successful

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

#Challenges #Dare

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

#Struggle #Progress

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!
-- Eric Thomas

#Party #Sleep #Successful

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

#Average #Want #Settling

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

#Average

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.
-- Eric Thomas

#Successful #Want #Breathe

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

#Trying #Littles #Stuff

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

#Successful #Giving #Dimes

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
-- Eric Thomas

#Feelings #Down And #Stills

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

#Workout #Hurt #Pain

You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
-- Eric Thomas

#Opportunity #Lifetime #Advantage

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

#Inspirational

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

#Dream #Brave #Enough

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

#Life #Hurt #Losing

Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.
-- Eric Thomas

#Thinking #Keys #Yield

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.
-- Eric Thomas

#Focus #Mind #World

I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give.  Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.
-- Eric Thomas

#Real #Sacrifice #People

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

#Yield #Kind #Environment

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

#Dream #Dope #Needs

It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made.
-- Eric Thomas

#Life #Dream #Memories

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!
-- Eric Thomas

#Life #Greatness #Half

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

#Life #Differences #Care

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

#Life #Life Changing #Giving

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

#Life #Greatness #Imagination

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

#Motivational #Earth #Accomplish

We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.
-- Eric Thomas

#Greatness #Produce #Ability

Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
-- Eric Thomas

#Greatness #Done #Wells

At the end of pain is SUCCESS!
-- Eric Thomas

#Pain #Ends

FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!
-- Eric Thomas

#Past #Forget #Your Past

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

#Enemy #Harm #Enemy Within

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

#Long #Copycats #Being The Best

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

#Communication #Vegas #Community

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

#Believe #Claims

Hard and impossible are two different things!
-- Eric Thomas

#Two #Different #Impossible

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

#Dream #Needs #Permission

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

#Want #What You Want #Who You Are

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

#Real #Math #Negative

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.
-- Eric Thomas

#Thinking #Consent #Feels

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

#Opportunity #Thinking #Effort

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.
-- Eric Thomas

#Jobs #World #Compare

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

#Next Level #Levels #Next

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

#Giving #Effort #Nosebleeds

Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!
-- Eric Thomas

#Quitting #Cry #Keep Going

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

#Pain #Greatness

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

#Average #Easier

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

#Sleep #Hard Work #Successful

When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.
-- Eric Thomas

#Way

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

#Currents #Disgusted #Circumstances

Better is a book than a well built house.
-- Eric Thomas

#Book #House #Wells

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

#Hands #Legacy

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.
-- Eric Thomas

#Heart #Where You Come

Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!
-- Eric Thomas

#Grind

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

#Knowledge Is Power

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

#Looks #Look Up

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

#Dream #Might #Months

If you sleep,you will miss the OPPORTUNITY to be successful
-- Eric Thomas

#Sleep #Successful #Opportunity

No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.
-- Eric Thomas

#Succeed #Failing