329 Quotes by Eric Thomas

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.

I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.

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.

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

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!

There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it!

We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do.

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

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