110+ Eric Thomas Quotes On Success, Relationships And Athletic
Eric Thomas is a professional American football player who currently plays for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Falcons in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia Tech, where he was a two-time All-ACC selection. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Eric Thomas on success, relationships, life.
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Top 10 Eric Thomas Quotes
- The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
- 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!
- Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
- Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.
- 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.
- 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!
- It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.
- The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!
- Be phenomenal or be forgotten!
- When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.
Eric Thomas Short Quotes
- No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.
- The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.
- Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power
- An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.
- You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.
- Nobody's as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that.
- If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.
- Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!
- Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got!
- Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day!
Eric Thomas Quotes About Success
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
You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it! — Eric Thomas
You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change. — Eric Thomas
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
Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt! — Eric Thomas
I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong! — Eric Thomas
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
You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe! — Eric Thomas
All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. — Eric Thomas
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
Eric Thomas Quotes About Life
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
You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some! — Eric Thomas
At some point in life you have to face your fears. — Eric Thomas
If you can look up, you can get up. — Eric Thomas
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
Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror! — Eric Thomas
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
I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life. — Eric Thomas
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! — Eric Thomas
Sometimes in life, you have to hit back! It's not always gonna be easy! — Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas Quotes About People
No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people don't believe in your dream, never give up! — Eric Thomas
The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement. — Eric Thomas
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! — Eric Thomas
I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well. — Eric Thomas
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! — Eric Thomas
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. — Eric Thomas
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
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
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
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. — Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas Quotes About Dream
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
Every day you say 'No' to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months — Eric Thomas
When you die, Die on "E".... Leave no Dream behind... Leave NO Opportunity behind! Accomplish everything you can. — Eric Thomas
I am a living witness, that if you are brave enough to dream it, it CAN happen — Eric Thomas
For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream. — Eric Thomas
If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality! — Eric Thomas
Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency! — Eric Thomas
Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality. — Eric Thomas
I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality. — Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas Famous Quotes And Sayings
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
You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME! — Eric Thomas
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
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
You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year! — Eric Thomas
Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you. — Eric Thomas
To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. — Eric Thomas
You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity. — Eric Thomas
When you're excited about what you do, and nobody gotta give you a dime, that's next level. — Eric Thomas
Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me! — Eric Thomas
You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency! — Eric Thomas
This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great! — Eric Thomas
Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today! — Eric Thomas
As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat. — Eric Thomas
If you're going to be free! You're going to have to free YOURSELF! — Eric Thomas
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. — Eric Thomas
So change your mindset. Change how you see pain. I want you to welcome it! — Eric Thomas
You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding! — Eric Thomas
You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself! — Eric Thomas
There are no excuses. There are no good reasons. — Eric Thomas
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. — Eric Thomas
Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor. — Eric Thomas
You are upgrading your technology, and you've not upgraded yourself! — Eric Thomas
Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back! — Eric Thomas
The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. — Eric Thomas
Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going! — Eric Thomas
Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it! — Eric Thomas
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
My values about learning changed. I realized that information changes situations. — Eric Thomas
There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading. — Eric Thomas
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
If you ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset. — Eric Thomas
So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten. — Eric Thomas
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.” — Eric Thomas
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
Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be. — Eric Thomas
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
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. — Eric Thomas
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
To be successful, you only need one person to believe! — Eric Thomas
To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become — Eric Thomas
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. — Eric Thomas
When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful. — Eric Thomas
You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful! — Eric Thomas
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. — Eric Thomas
When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful. — Eric Thomas
Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting? — Eric Thomas
Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress — Eric Thomas
You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are. — Eric Thomas
You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life. — Eric Thomas
Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd. — Eric Thomas
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. — Eric Thomas
I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy. — Eric Thomas
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
If you want to finish, sometimes you can't just finish. You gotta finish fast! — Eric Thomas
You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd! — Eric Thomas
Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort. — Eric Thomas
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
Better is a book than a well built house. — Eric Thomas
Every principle has a promise. — Eric Thomas
Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness. — Eric Thomas
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
It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to! — Eric Thomas
I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength. — Eric Thomas
If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing. — Eric Thomas
Life Lessons by Eric Thomas
- Eric Thomas teaches that hard work and dedication are key to success. He emphasizes the importance of setting goals and taking action to achieve them.
- He also encourages people to never give up, even when faced with difficult obstacles. He believes that with perseverance and determination, anything is possible.
- Finally, Eric Thomas emphasizes the importance of having a positive attitude and believing in yourself. He believes that having a strong mindset is essential for achieving success.
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