Top 180 Eric Thomas Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

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2. “Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has a grind.”

— Eric Thomas

3. “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

Featured in: Focus Quotes

4. “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

5. “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

6. “Stop being average. You’re not even good. You were born to be great.”

— Eric Thomas

7. “Monday, I grind. Tuesday, I grind. Wednesday, I grind. Thursday, I grind. Friday, I grind. Saturday, I grind. Sunday, I grind. And, that’s why I’m here today.”

— Eric Thomas

8. “I used my pain to push me to greatness.”

— Eric Thomas

9. “Don’t make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what’s actually good for you.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

11. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to successful.”

— Eric Thomas

12. “It’s not easy, but it’s simple.”

— Eric Thomas

13. “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

14. “If you’re not where you are. If you’re not where you want to be. If you don’t have what you want, want to have. If you’re not where you think you should be at this particular place. It has nothing to do with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you’re not making the sacrifice.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

17. “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

18. “To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become.”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Sacrifice Quotes

19. “I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around; people whom I could rub up against like iron and be sharpened.”

— Eric Thomas

20. “Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge is power.”

— Eric Thomas

21. “Just because you failed, don’t make you a failure. And just because you lost, don’t make you a loser.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

23. “Be phenomenal or be forgotten!”

— Eric Thomas

24. “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

25. “Greatness is a lot of small things done well.”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Greatness Quotes

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

— Eric Thomas

27. “No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Passion Quotes, MMA Quotes

28. “Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress.”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Struggle Quotes, Progress Quotes

29. “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

30. “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

31. “I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!”

— Eric Thomas

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32. “Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes

33. “Don’t cry to quit. Cry to keep going!”

— Eric Thomas

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34. “At the end of pain is SUCCESS!”

— Eric Thomas

35. “Champions keep going when they don’t have anything left in their tank!”

— Eric Thomas

36. “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

Featured in: Sleep Quotes

37. “The reason why you’ll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.”

— Eric Thomas

38. “Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Innovation Quotes

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

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Habit Quotes, Quitting Quotes

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

— Eric Thomas

41. “When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That’s when it’s show time!”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Energy Quotes

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

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

44. “The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It’s their mindset!”

— Eric Thomas

45. “You master Monday! You start winning the day! You start winning the week! Then the month! Then the year!”

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Monday Quotes

46. “I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

Featured in: Sleep Quotes

48. “If you ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

50. “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