Top 180 Eric Thomas Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “You’ll never be successful until I don’t have to give you a dime to do what you do.”

— Eric Thomas

152. “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

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

— Eric Thomas

154. “You can’t quit or give up before you get it!”

— Eric Thomas

155. “You think it’s going to be easy? Forget about it! Don’t even try to be successful!”

— Eric Thomas

156. “For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream.”

— Eric Thomas

157. “This is your year to accomplish what you’ve never accomplished before.”

— Eric Thomas

158. “It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!”

— Eric Thomas

159. “If you’re going to be free! You’re going to have to free YOURSELF!”

— Eric Thomas

160. “And when you finish reading, read some more.”

— Eric Thomas

161. “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

162. “There’s a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don’t understand the importance of reading.”

— Eric Thomas

163. “Some of you, your success has messed you up! You’ve lost your bite! You’re not hungry anymore!”

— Eric Thomas

164. “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.”

— Eric Thomas

165. “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

166. “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

167. “I don’t ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.”

— Eric Thomas

168. “When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.”

— Eric Thomas

169. “We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It’s a clean slate.”

— Eric Thomas

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Eric Thomas

174. “I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

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

— Eric Thomas

177. “Every single thing I go through, I remember I was homeless, and I draw from it!”

— Eric Thomas

178. “My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!”

— Eric Thomas

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Eric Thomas

182. “If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I’m broke. I’m nothing.”

— Eric Thomas

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.”

— Eric Thomas

188. “Part of making yourself a priority is spending time alone.”

— Eric Thomas

189. “You owe it to you to put yourself first. When you take care of yourself, take the time to see yourself, and get comfortable with being you, only then can you start to take care of other people, see other people, and be comfortable with other people.”

— Eric Thomas