Thomas Edison Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

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

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

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

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

My favorite time of day is the one that has Edison in it.

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.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

I have always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

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.

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

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

Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.

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

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

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

I start where the last man left off.

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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

I always felt that failure was a beginning and not an end.

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

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I start where the last man left off.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage, but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

A capable, intelligent and virtuous woman who is also beautiful, is a quadruple threat.

Passion is key to success.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

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

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

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

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith. Go forward.

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

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

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.

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.

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.