Thomas A. Edison Inspirational Quotes

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  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

  "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

• 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.

• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

• 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.

• 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

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity

  "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

• I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Karma, Running

• 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, Motivational, Single

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  "Edison & Ford Quote Book". Book by Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 2003.

• The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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.

• 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 failed my way to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

• We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Rich, Electricity

  Thomas A. Edison's statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (December 31, 1879), as quoted in Chris J. Magoc "Chronology of Americans and the Environment" (p. 46), 2011.

• 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

• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Educational, Genius

• 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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life". Book by Francis Arthur Jones, 1908.

• Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

• 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

  "Geek mythology and Nikola Tesla" by Rebekah Higgitt, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2012.

• I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Patience, Perseverance

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