Popular Quotes from Great Minds

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

Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

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

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.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

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.

Thomas Alva Edison

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.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

There is always a better way.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas Alva Edison

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.

Thomas Alva Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas Alva Edison

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake.. Religion is all bunk.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Thomas Alva Edison

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Alva Edison

Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

Thomas Alva Edison

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas Alva Edison

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas Alva Edison

I start where the last man left off.

Thomas Alva Edison

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Thomas Alva Edison

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.