Famous 130+ Inspiring Quotes By Eric Thomas On Life, Relationship

Inspiring Quotes By Eric Thomas | If you are a dreamer, then you must have heard many motivational videos and speeches. Among them, there is a very famous motivational speaker whose name is Eric Thomas.

He has a very famous line, “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

Eric Thomas was born on September 3, 1970, in Chicago. He was raised by his single mother. He had dropped out of high school, due to which there was a lot of quarrel with him and his parents. Because of this, he left home and spent the next two years in the street.

When he was homeless, he met a preacher who inspired him to rejoin the school. Thomas obeyed and rejoined the school and, after that, completed college.

After that, he did many things during college, like becoming an academic adviser and developing an undergraduate retention program called The Advantage. In 2015, he did his PhD in Education Administration.

Today Eric Thomas is one of the top motivational speakers in the world. His way of speaking can motivate anyone in this world. He is that powerful. I personally suggest you must watch his video.

In this article, we will share with you the powerful words he spoke, which will inspire you a lot in life.


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

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“Avoid being your own enemy.”

– Eric Thomas

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“Everybody wants to be a beast, until it’s time to do what real beasts do.”

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“Stop whining, start grinding.”

– Eric Thomas


“Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.”

– Eric Thomas


“Only those who risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– Eric Thomas


“I’ve got a dream that’s worth more than my sleep.”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“Don’t cry to quit! You already in pain, you already hurt! Get a reward from it!”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas

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

– Eric Thomas


“You can’t cheat the grind, it knows hows much you’ve invested, it won’t give you nothing you haven’t worked for.”

– Eric Thomas


“Like for real, you can start from the bottom, and by the grace of God, work your way all the way up to the top man.”

– Eric Thomas


“Success is not for the weak and uncommitted… Sometimes it’s gonna hurt!”

– Eric Thomas


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“Only those who risk going too far, can possible find out how far one can go.”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”

– Eric Thomas

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

– Eric Thomas


“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


“Success is not for the weak and uncommitted… Sometimes it’s gonna hurt!”

– 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


“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


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

– Eric Thomas


“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanence!”

– Eric Thomas


“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


“I’m not minimizing your problems, but I’m saying…if life knocked you down 1 year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago…and you still on the ground…we got a problem.”

– Eric Thomas

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“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


“I use pain to push me to greatness”

– Eric Thomas


“If you’re not where you are, if you’re not where you want to be, if you don’t have what you 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


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

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas

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“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!”

– Eric Thomas


“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


“Look in the mirror, that’s your competition.”

– Eric Thomas


“The problem is, you get more excited talking about it than you do when you actually doing it!”

– Eric Thomas


“Listen to me: You’ll never be successful until I don’t have to give you a dime to do what you do.”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“If you’re going to go to your next level, your values are going to have to change.”

– Eric Thomas


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“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

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“I don’t care if you broke, you grew up broke… you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs!”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.”

– Eric Thomas


“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanence!”

– Eric Thomas


“Be stronger than your excuses.”

– Eric Thomas


“If it takes a boring Biology class, then I’m taking Biology. If I gotta go through Calculus to make my family get to a level they’ve never been too, then Calculus watch your back! Cause your boy is coming.”

– Eric Thomas


“Information changes situations.”

– Eric Thomas


“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


“The competitive edge is not something that… it’s not the top tier management… it’s not something that they give you.”

– Eric Thomas

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“Some of you need to give up your cell phone!”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“It’s about optimal movement. Decisive movement. The most effective movement.”

– Eric Thomas


“Desire and imagination have the potential to position a person for greatness.”

– Eric Thomas


“No alarm clock needed, my passion wakes me.”

– Eric Thomas


“I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!”

– Eric Thomas


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“You know school ain’t my first love, but we gotta get in here and do it so that young people can know that for real it’s past possible, there’s absolutely nothing that we can’t accomplish.”

– Eric Thomas

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“I don’t want to hang my hat on one area of life and think I’m successful. I’m not on that! I want the triple double.”

– Eric Thomas


“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


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

– Eric Thomas


“God has a purpose for your pain, a reason for your struggles and a reward for your faithfulness. Don’t give up.”

– Eric Thomas


“Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep!”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners.”

– Eric Thomas

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“A setback is a setup for a comeback.”

– Eric Thomas


“The most important thing is this: To be able at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become!”

– Eric Thomas


“I’m intoxicated on success!”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“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

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“You can get through this. You are bigger than your pain, don’t give up don’t give in.”

– Eric Thomas


“At the end of pain is success.”

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“Trust the process.”

– Eric Thomas


“Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship.”

– Eric Thomas


“You saying you want to be great, but on the other hand you comfortable with average.”

– Eric Thomas


“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.”

– Eric Thomas

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

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas


“Be stronger than your excuses.”

– Eric Thomas


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

– Eric Thomas

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“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”

– 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.”

– Eric Thomas


“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


“You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at it’s fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity.”

– Eric Thomas

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

– Eric Thomas


“All men are created equal, some men work harder in pre-season.”

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“If you’re going to go to your next level, your values are going to have to change.”

– Eric Thomas

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“I’m gonna make the rest of my life, the best of my life.”

– Eric Thomas


“Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners.”

– Eric Thomas


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