Thomas Edison Quotes

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

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

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

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

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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

There’s a way to do it better – find it.

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

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

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

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others.

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.

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

I start where the last man left off.

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

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

Thomas Edison Quotes part 2

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

Results! I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.

The greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.

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

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

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

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.

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

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

There are no rules here. We’re trying to accomplish something.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think.

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

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

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

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