Eric Thomas
When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.Collection: Motivational
I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.Collection: Sorry
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.Collection: Wake Up
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: School
Better is a book than a well built house.Collection: Book
Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.Collection: Reading
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.”Collection: School
So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.Collection: Average
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!Collection: Eric
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.Collection: Successful
You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!Collection: Trying
I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!Collection: Pain
It ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to persevere! Willing to stick in there! Willing to fight!Collection: Fighting
Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back!Collection: Fighting
You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!Collection: Mountain
Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!Collection: Quitting
What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.Collection: Would Be
There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.Collection: No Excuses
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!Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Thinking
And when you finish reading, read some more.Collection: Reading
Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today!Collection: Legends
This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Dream
Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Life
The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Confidence
To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will becomeCollection: Sacrifice
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.Collection: Success
When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Life
When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!Collection: Energy
FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!Collection: Past
Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.Collection: Pain
Be phenomenal or be forgotten!Collection: Forgotten
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.Collection: Inspirational
Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progressCollection: Struggle
You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!Collection: Want
If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want!Collection: Blood
You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!Collection: Daddy
Apply the ABC’s of success to your life. Ask, Believe and Claim It.Collection: Believe
You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!Collection: Succeed
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.Collection: Real
If you can look up, you can get up.Collection: Encouraging
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Life Happens