Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Achievement

Quotes about: Achievement

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

• I start where the last man left off.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Positive, Men

  "Makers of the Modern World : The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1955.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Education, Work

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Creativity

• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

• 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

  Hard Work, Adventure, Ideas

• Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Disappointment, Achievement, Individual

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