R.S. Thomas Quotes

Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!

I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference!

No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.

I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!

Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it's got to hurt.

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!

I am a living witness, that if you are brave enough to dream it, it CAN happen

For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream.

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.

Better is a book than a well built house.

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

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!

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!

I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

This is your year to accomplish what you've never accomplished before.

If you want to finish, sometimes you can't just finish. You gotta finish fast!

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.

Every single thing I go through, I remember I was homeless, and I draw from it!

When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us.

Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.

We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate.

I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

Sometimes in life, you have to hit back! It's not always gonna be easy!

Hard and impossible are two different things!

Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct.

I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

Money doesn't motivate, but stats do.

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.