Most people miss Opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

- Thomas A. Edison

Hope

"I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun."

- Thomas A. Edison

Happiness

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Motivation

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Motivation

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

Hard Work

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"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."

- Unknown

Hard Work

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

Hard Work

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

- Michael Larsen

Hard Work

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

Hard Work