Thomas a. edison quotes

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

I think work is the world's greatest fun.

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.

What you are will show in what you do.

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

Success is the result of hard work.

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

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.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

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

Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

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

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.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

A man’s best friend is a good wife.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

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

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Sticking to it is the genius.

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

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

Do the thing and the power will come.

Friendship is the heaven of life.

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

Vision without execution is delusion.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

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

I never quit until I get what I want.

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.

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

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

There is time for everything.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

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

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

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

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

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.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

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

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.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

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

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

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

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.

When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

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

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.

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

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Work while others are wishing.

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

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

When you become quiet, it just dawns on you

I failed my way to success.

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.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

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

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

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

Absorb ideas from every source.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

There is always a better way.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

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

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

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

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

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