88+ EXCLUSIVE Eric Thomas Quotes You Must Know

Eric Thomas, also known as The Hip-Hop Preacher, is an American motivational speaker, author and minister. Eric Thomas quotes and speeches will help you reach your maximum potential and to bring all your goals to life.

ET, as he is better known, can truly ignite the fire within with his creative style and high-energy messages. His words will make you strive towards your goals. He is a true legend of motivation because he became homeless for two years, and overcome difficulties and found a way to turn his life around. He works incredibly hard in order to become successful.

Let deep quotes about life encourage you to think deeply and highly. Also, Abraham Hicks quotes show you what you are capable of in life.

Best Eric Thomas Quotes

I’ve got a dream that’s worth more than my sleep. Eric Thomas

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. Eric Thomas

To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it’s never convenient. 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

Stop whining. You’re not a victim. You’re a victor. Eric Thomas

If you can look up, you can get up. Eric Thomas

I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. 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

When you find your way, you find a way to make it happen. Eric Thomas

It’s not easy, but it’s simple. Eric Thomas

A setback is a setup for a comeback. Eric Thomas

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. Eric Thomas

No alarm clock needed, my passion wakes me. 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

Trust the process. Eric Thomas

You can get through this. you are bigger than your pain, don’t give up don’t give in. Eric Thomas

I don’t care if you broke, you grew up broke you grew up rich. You only get 24 hours! 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

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

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

I use pain to push me to greatness. Eric Thomas

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. Eric Thomas

When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Eric Thomas

Done is better than perfect if perfect ain’t done. Eric Thomas

At some point in life you have to face your fears. 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 am not suggesting that emotions don’t have their place, but taking actions based purely on emotions is dangerous and could cost you everything. Eric Thomas

I have learned over the years that the higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning. For example, if your emotions are at the highest level of 10, your ability to reason is at a 0. If it’s a 9 then your reasoning is a 1. I am not suggesting that emotions don’t have their place, but taking actions based purely on emotions is dangerous and could cost you everything. Eric Thomas

When the need to succeed. Eric Thomas

Success, meaningful success, begins when we take ownership and actively take responsibility for our part in the shortcomings of our life. Eric Thomas

Be stronger than your excuses. Eric Thomas

I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything. Eric Thomas

haracter 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

Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful. Eric Thomas

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world. Eric Thomas

Maybe, just maybe, I was pointing the finger because it was easier to make excuses than it was to make adjustments. Eric Thomas

No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people Don’t believe in your dream, Never give up! Eric Thomas

Desire and imagination have the potential to position a person for greatness. Eric Thomas

Every principle has a promise. Eric Thomas

I when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful. 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. Eric Thomas

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

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanence! 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

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. Eric Thomas

If you can look up, you can get up. Eric Thomas

Stop being average. You’re not even good. You were born to be great. Eric Thomas

Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives. Eric Thomas

Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has a grind. Eric Thomas

It’s not easy, but it’s simple. Eric Thomas

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanence! 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

Success is not for the weak and uncommitted. Sometimes it’s gonna hurt! Eric Thomas

Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has a grind. Eric Thomas

I use pain to push me to greatness. Eric Thomas

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

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. Eric Thomas

So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want. Eric Thomas

Every day I wake up and I am who I say am and I get what I get because I stay in beast mode. Eric Thomas

Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners. Eric Thomas

If you would just believe that your day is coming. That the sacrifices you are making today are going to pay off. But you’ve got to do me a favor, you can get around all these people and get around all this information but if you do not believe it ain’t gon happen! 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

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

I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything. Eric Thomas

No, to sleep when you should be working out. Saying no to quitting when you still got a hundred more shots to make. Saying no when your body says stop, but you put in fifty more push ups! You can’t just talk about it! You gotta be about it! Eric Thomas

I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you! Eric Thomas

Listen to me, even when you lose, it’s o 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

You might be smarter. 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

Done is better than perfect if perfect ain’t done. 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

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

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror! Eric Thomas

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence. Eric Thomas

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 saying you want to be great, but on the other hand you comfortable with average. Eric Thomas

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

If you’re going to go to your next level, your values are going to have to change. 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 cry to give up, cry to keep going. 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

You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity. 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

Stop sabotaging yourself. Eric Thomas

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