Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

What you are will show in what you do.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

I failed my way to success.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Vision without execution is delusion.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Work while others are wishing.

I never quit until I get what I want.