Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Hard Work

Quotes about: Hard Work

• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.
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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

• 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

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Work, Common Sense

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Hard Work, Opportunity

• 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

• 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

• Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Worry

• I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Discipline

• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Science, Eight

• Success is the result of hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Mathematics, Results

• Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Science

• Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Hard Work, People

• Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Education, Hard Work, Play

• There is no subsitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Hard

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