Thomas A. Edison famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

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

#Funny #Life #Motivational

There is no substitute for hard work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Morning #Motivation #Hard Work

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Positive

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

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

#Inspirational #Positive #Business

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Way #Causes

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Vision #Hallucinations

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

#Sports #Giving Up #Men

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Happiness #Inspiring #Success

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Time #Humans

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Success #Giving #Intuition

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Believe #Intelligent #Chemistry

I never quit until I get what I want.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Never Quit #Want #Quitting

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Life #Motivation #Work

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Success #Educational #Failure

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

#Leadership #Badass #Crazy

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Mistake #Creativity #Patents

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Science #Imagination

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

#Light #Steps #Failing

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Ideas #Play #Come Up

The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Boys #Cells #Brain

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Names #Ideas #Trying

There is always a better way.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Self Reliance #Way

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

#Positive #Business #Creativity

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Believe #School #Religion

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Positive #Smart #Failure

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Failure #Way

I start where the last man left off.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Positive #Men

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Thinking #Technology #Might

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Educational #Inspiration #Genius

There is time for everything.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Time #Peace

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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....
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Ideas #Acting

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

#Fitness #Health #Doctors

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Science #Trying

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Positive #Time #Waiting

I failed my way to success.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Fear #Way #My Way

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Men #Thinking #Missing

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

#Successful #Action #Failing

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Sleep #Going To Sleep #Subconscious

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Dream #Realizing

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Four #Facts #Twenties

There is a better way for everything. Find it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Way

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Opportunity #Luck #Planning

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Suicide

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Thinking #Ideas

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Past #Firsts #Study

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Steps #Steps Forward #Discarded

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Motivational #Happiness

I think work is the world's greatest fun.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Fun #Thinking #World

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Brain #Use #Body

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Life #Birthday #Death

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Failure #Failing

Seeming to do is not doing.
-- Thomas A. Edison

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

#Inspirational #Life #Fun

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Worry #Focus

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Mother #Appreciation #Memories

If there is a better solution... find it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Pride #Solutions

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Simple #Discovery #Years

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Sleep #Night

What you are will show in what you do.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivation #Action #Human Nature

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Men #Wonderful #Foul

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

#Paper #Care #Tomorrow

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Ideas #Problem #Adaptation

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Fit #Hours #Experiments

Sticking to it is the genius.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Children #Genius

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 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.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Adventure #Hard Work #Ideas

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Educational #Thousand #Findings

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Character #Men

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Character #Angel #Men

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Opportunity #People

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

#People #Succeed #Steps

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.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Children #Memories #Stress

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Business #Good Life #Lying

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Way

Success is the result of hard work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Hard Work #Mathematics #Results

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Technique #Planning #Process

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Lesson Learned #Lessons #Strategy

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Ideas #People #Bothered

Nature made us... nature did it all... not the gods of the religions.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Made

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Hard Work #Men #Thinking

Do the thing and the power will come.
-- Thomas A. Edison

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.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Positive #Men

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Ballet #Genius #Doe

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Survival #Firsts #Week

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Father #Brave #Have Faith

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Wish

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Opportunity #Ability

Being busy does not always mean real work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Real #Mean #Doe

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Quality #Stopping #Ability

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Want #Proud #Weapons

Work while others are wishing.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Motivational #Wish

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Lying #People #Liberty

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

#Inspirational #Friendship #Positive

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

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.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Spiritual #Law #Insightful

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Drinking #Ignorance #Knowledge