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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Thomas Alva Edison
There is always a better way.
Vince Lombardi
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
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Thomas Alva Edison
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Sandra Richardson
Effective teamwork is all about making a good, well-balanced salad not whipping individuals into a single batch of V8.
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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.
Max DePree
Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.
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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.
Victor Hugo
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Victor Hugo
Table talk and lovers’ talk equally elude the grasp; lovers’ talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
Thomas Alva Edison
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
Victor Hugo
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Thomas Alva Edison
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Thomas Alva Edison
Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Victor Hugo
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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.
Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Thomas Alva Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
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Victor Hugo
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Victor Hugo
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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Victor Hugo
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Michael Jordan
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
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Victor Hugo
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Ifeanyi Enoch
Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.
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