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No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.
Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day!
You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.
Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!
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.
At some point in life you have to face your fears.
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.
No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people DON'T believe in your dream,Never give up!
Because when I'm a copycat I'm never good! But when I'm Eric Thomas, I'm great! I'm great at what I do!
We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate.
Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got!
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!
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.
If there is no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm.
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.
Be phenomenal or be forgotten!
Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!
Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut...
There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
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.
Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality.
As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.
You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!
I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE
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.
Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort.
You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.
If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.
Desire & imagination have the potential to position a person for greatness.
If you're going to go to the next level, your values are going to have to change!
Be faithful over few. Every single opportunity you get! I need you to grind on the little stuff!
This a soft generation. You quit on everything! Our people did not quit!
You quitting and you ain't even tried yet!
Avoid being your own enemy.
You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!
Don't cry to give up! Cry to keep going!!
I gotta commit my very being to this thing! Gotta breathe it, eat it, sleep it!
I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!
Some of you, if you give up your cell phone, you will be successful.
You have to give it everything you've got.
This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!
Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.
The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.
Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!
You are upgrading your technology, and you've not upgraded yourself!
It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.
Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
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.
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.
The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!
Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!
When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.
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.
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! 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.
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!
When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.
Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.
To be successful, you only need one person to believe!
Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress
I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror
To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become
The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement.
FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!
Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
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.
When you're excited about what you do, and nobody gotta give you a dime, that's next level.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
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.
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.
Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it... Or you'll never have'em.
It may not be given to you. But if you're ready to earn it, the universe is yours.
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
When you die, Die on "E".... Leave no Dream behind... Leave NO Opportunity behind! Accomplish everything you can.
If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.
Every day you say 'No' to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months
That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!
If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight.
You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.
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.
Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!
You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.
You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!
When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step!
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.
All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.
Every principle has a promise.
Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.
The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.
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(ment).
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.
Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.
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.
Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.
And when you finish reading, read some more.
You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!
If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing.
I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!
If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want!
It ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to persevere! Willing to stick in there! Willing to fight!
There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it!
If you want to finish, sometimes you can't just finish. You gotta finish fast!
You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.
My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!
If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality!
It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!
My values about learning changed. I realized that information changes situations.
You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!
Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.
Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.
Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.
You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

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