50 thomas a. edison quotes

52 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.

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

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

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

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 reason a lot of people do not
recognize opportunity is because it usually
goes around wearing overalls looking like
hard work.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying
to accomplish something.

Just because something doesn't do what
you planned it to do doesn't mean it's
useless.

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

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

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.

There is no substitute for hard work.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was
all fun.

The three great essentials to achieve
anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-
to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Discontent is the first necessity of
progress.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent
is the first necessity of progress. Show me
a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show
you a failure.

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

Everything comes to him who hustles
while he waits.

I never did anything by accident, nor did
any of my inventions come by accident;
they came by work.

Be courageous. I have seen many
depressions in business. Always America
has emerged from these stronger and
more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers
before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Maturity is often more absurd than youth
and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented
weapons to kill.

There will one day spring from the brain of
science a machine or force so fearful in its
potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that
even man, the fighter, who will dare torture
and death in order to inflict torture and
death, will be appalled, and so abandon
war forever.

The best thinking has been done in
solitude. The worst has been done in
turmoil.

What a man's mind can create, man's
character can control.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to
be for many people to put their brains
definitely and systematically to work.

The chief function of the body is to carry
the brain around.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I
will show you a failure.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

There is no expedient to which a man will
not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

What you are will show in what you do.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

I start where the last man left off.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

I know this world is ruled by infinite
intelligence. Everything that surrounds us-
everything that exists - proves that there
are infinite laws behind it. There can be no
denying this fact. It is mathematical in its
precision.

We don't know a millionth of one percent
about anything.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Your worth consists in what you are and
not in what you have.

When I have fully decided that a result is
worth getting I go ahead of it and make
trial after trial until it comes.

The body is a community made up of its
innumerable cells or inhabitants.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my
reward, in the work that precedes what the
world calls success.

There is far more opportunity than there is
ability.

His genius he was quite content in one
brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one
percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

To my mind the old masters are not art;
their value is in their scarcity.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of
results. I know several thousand things
that won't work.

They say President Wilson has blundered.
Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually
blunders forward.

Nearly every man who develops an idea
works it up to the point where it looks
impossible, and then he gets discouraged.
That's not the place to become
discouraged.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is
coming when every person who lays claim
to ability will keep the question of waste
before him constantly. The scope of thrift
is limitless.

One might think that the money value of an
invention constitutes its reward to the man
who loves his work. But... I continue to find
my greatest pleasure, and so my
reward, in the work that precedes what the
world calls success.

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