Quotes by Eric D. Thomas - Page 1

When you want to succeed as bad as you want breathe, then you will be successful.
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Breathe
Succeed
Successful
Want
Will
Then
Bad
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Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work.
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Average
Late
Work People School
Average People
Barely
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Listen to me carefully: My father wasn't in my life, but it feels good taking care of my kids.
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Life Good Me
Carefully
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People talk about how great this country is - and it's a great country - but I feel that many young people don't believe they have access to the American dream.
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American Dream
Great Country
Great Believe People
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Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn't finish high school. My father didn't, and I didn't. But you can break the cycle. You can have a successful marriage and be a good father.
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Good Father
Grandfather
Cycle
Finish
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In my estimation, there are four kinds of people that live on this earth: average, good, great, and phenomenal. Phenomenal is like Mother Theresa. She's dead, but we still talk about her on a regular basis. That's phenomenal.
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Average
Estimation
Phenomenal
Theresa
Good Great Mother
Basis
Dead
Regular
Regular Basis
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Do you know, if I go to a Jewish school, them kids are quiet. If I go to a white school, them kids quiet. If I go to a Latino school, they quiet. The only kids that disrespect me is black kids. That's it - my own are the only ones that disrespect me.
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Disrespect
Do You Know
Latino
Quiet
Jewish
Me Black Know
Black Me White
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You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we survived slavery - and we can't pass a test? ... And you're gonna tell me we can't learn how to write? Have you lost your mind? We are survivors. That's all we do is survive.
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Lost
Spread
World Your Mind
World Mind Me
Africa
Our People
Pass
Survive
Survivors
Tell
Test
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Bottom line, I removed myself from the victim mentality and took control of my life. I'm not just going to take responsibility for the success in my life - I'm going to take responsibility for the failures in my life. When you're willing to accept that you're the problem, you immediately become the solution.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Mentality
Problem
Responsibility
Willing
Control
Accept
Failures
Immediately
Line
My Life
Solution
Took
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