Eric thomas quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress

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

Be phenomenal or be forgotten!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.

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?.

I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

At the end of pain is SUCCESS!

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

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

You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!

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

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

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

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

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Every principle has a promise.

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

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

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

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

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

When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!

When you're excited about what you do, and nobody gotta give you a dime, that's next level.

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

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

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

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!

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

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 challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

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

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!

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

If you sleep,you will miss the OPPORTUNITY to be successful

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

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

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

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

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!

If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you can look up, you can get up.

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.

The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

You are upgrading your technology, and you've not upgraded yourself!

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

Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

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

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

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

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

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!

You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!

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

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

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

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

When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step!

FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!