Top 180 Eric Thomas Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you’re going to have to free yourself!”

— Eric Thomas

103. “Better is a book than a well built house.”

— Eric Thomas

104. “Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct.”

— Eric Thomas

105. “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

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

— Eric Thomas

107. “I used to use hip hop hooks as a way to attract young people and get their attention and I knew they were familiar with the lyrics. A big part about learning is really making connections so in telling young people...”

— Eric Thomas

108. “You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!”

— Eric Thomas

109. “We don’t have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don’t get to make that decision.”

— Eric Thomas

110. “Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.”

— Eric Thomas

111. “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

112. “No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.”

— Eric Thomas

113. “Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.”

— Eric Thomas

114. “Every day you say ‘No’ to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

116. “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

117. “Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.”

— Eric Thomas

118. “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

119. “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

120. “Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!”

— Eric Thomas

121. “There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.”

— Eric Thomas

122. “You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.”

— Eric Thomas

123. “Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today!”

— Eric Thomas

124. “I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!”

— Eric Thomas

125. “If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can’t be afraid to fight.”

— Eric Thomas

126. “When you’re great! You attract great! When you’re average! You attract average!”

— Eric Thomas

127. “Hard and impossible are two different things!”

— Eric Thomas

128. “You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!”

— Eric Thomas

129. “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

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

— Eric Thomas

131. “Sometimes in life, you have to hit back! It’s not always gonna be easy!”

— Eric Thomas

132. “When you impress yourself, you’re going to automatically impress us.”

— Eric Thomas

133. “You’re trying to do big things and you ain’t mastered the little stuff!”

— Eric Thomas

134. “I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I’m a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you’re from Detroit, music is in your DNA.”

— Eric Thomas

135. “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!”

— Eric Thomas

136. “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

137. “It’s not about where you come from, it’s about heart.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

139. “If you can look up, you can get up.”

— Eric Thomas

140. “I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can’t genuinely get excited about his or her work.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

142. “Success and average don’t have nothing to do with each other.”

— Eric Thomas

143. “You don’t get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.”

— Eric Thomas

144. “If you want to finish, sometimes you can’t just finish. You gotta finish fast!”

— Eric Thomas

145. “What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.”

— Eric Thomas

146. “It may not be given to you. But if you’re ready to earn it, the universe is yours.”

— Eric Thomas

147. “When you feel like you’ve given all you’ve got! You gotta take one more step!”

— Eric Thomas

148. “Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.”

— Eric Thomas

149. “When you do what you’re supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.”

— Eric Thomas

150. “I dare you to try to shortcut success! It’s not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!”

— Eric Thomas