Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Success
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Success
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Success
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.
Success
There is no substitute for hard work.
Success
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Success
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Wisdom
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Wisdom
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Wisdom
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.
Success
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.
Courage
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Wisdom
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Success
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Wisdom
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Wisdom
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Wisdom
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Wisdom
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.
Success
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Success
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Friendship
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Wisdom
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.
Success
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Wisdom
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