85 quotes
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Resilience
""Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.""
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to success is to try just one more time."
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one time more."
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time."
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"I have not I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would be amazed."
- Thomas Edison
Aspirations
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time."
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"Most people miss the opportunity because they dress in overalls and pretend to work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Opportunity is missed by most because is it dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Leadership
"“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”"
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”"
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
""There is no substitute for hard work.""
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Belief
"Genius is 2 percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anything more than they do."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"The most certain way to succeed is to just try one more time."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work"
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly, a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
- Thomas Edison
Learning
"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Strength
"There’s a way to do it better. Find it."
- Thomas Edison
Creativity
"I start where the last man left off."
- Thomas Edison
Determination
"I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
""Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.""
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"There's a way to do it better. Find it."
- Thomas Edison
Creativity
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
- Thomas Edison
Productivity
"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition."
- Thomas Edison
Health
"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
Vision
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison
Health
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we could literally astound ourselves."
- Thomas Edison
Belief in Self
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t."
- Thomas Edison
Hope
"Success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are Hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
""Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.""
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven't."
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge."
- Thomas Edison
Philosophy
"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy—sun, wind, and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
- Thomas Edison
Environment
"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
- Thomas Edison
Environment
"Life’s failures are stepping stones to success."
- Thomas Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"I haven’t failed."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"Good things come to those who hustle while they wait."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time"
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time."
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"Two per cent. is genius and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"Genius is another name for hard work, honest work. Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"The way to succeed is always to try one more time."
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"Success depends on your willingness to fail and learn."
- Thomas Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint."
- Thomas Edison
Motivation
"Many of life’s failures are experiences by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
- Thomas Edison
Self-esteem
"I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"Hell, there are no rules here; We're trying to accomplish something."
- Thomas Edison
Taking Risks
"I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that don't work."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"There is time for everything – Thomas Edison"
- Thomas Edison
Philosophy
"I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that don’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
- Thomas Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"The difference between successful people and others is how long they can concentrate on a problem without getting bored."
- Thomas Edison
Focus
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"I failed my way to success."
- Thomas Edison
Failure