You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it! Eric Thomas More Quotes by Eric Thomas More Quotes From Eric Thomas You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change. Eric Thomas disgusted currents circumstances I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy. Eric Thomas legacy i-can hands It's not about where you come from, it's about heart. Eric Thomas where-you-come heart We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives. Eric Thomas ability produce greatness 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. Eric Thomas rich-life kings mother 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. Eric Thomas sacrifice hard-work school 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. Eric Thomas mean years thinking 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.” Eric Thomas skills talking school 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. Eric Thomas church kind people 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! Eric Thomas want helping people 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. Eric Thomas rap artist meaningful 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. Eric Thomas dna men blood We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision. Eric Thomas determine humans decision Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality. Eric Thomas dream reality people Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative. Eric Thomas fruit creative mind 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. Eric Thomas individual wake-up reason 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. Eric Thomas support-you real dream You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice. Eric Thomas pieces decision advice 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. Eric Thomas doctors goal successful
