Latest Eric Thomas Quotes from Interviews

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• I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

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  Wake Up, Reason, Individual

• Every morning I wake up, it's kind of like wow, I don't know what happened or how it happened, I can't put my finger on it, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful to be alive. To spend one more day with my family. One more day to make my dreams become a reality. One more day to help somebody. So the first thought on my mind is, thank you god for another day.

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  Dream, Morning, Grateful

• Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality.

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  Dream, Reality, People

• We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.

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  Decision, Determine, Humans

• Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.

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  Needs, Apathy, Tough

• 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.

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  Pain, Goal, People

• 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.

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  Men, Dna, Blood

• 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.

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  Meaningful, Rap, Artist

• 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.

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  Opportunity, Trying, Momentum

• 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!

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  People, Want, Helping

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• 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!

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  Kids, People, Firsts

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• 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.

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  Mother, Kings, Rich Life

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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

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  Creative, Mind, Fruit

• 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!

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  Taken, Brain, Use

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• 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.

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  Thinking, Games

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• 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.

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  School, Hard Work, Sacrifice

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about!

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  Believe, Passionate, Workers

• 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.

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  Successful, Thinking, Community

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.

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  Morning, Up Early, People

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• 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.

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  Mean, Thinking, Years

• I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

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  School, Talking, Skills

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• 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.

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  People, Church, Kind

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

• So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you.

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  Dream, Real, Support You

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• Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.

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  Successful, Boards, Gone

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• 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.

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  Successful, Doctors, Goal

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