Thomas A. Edison Quotes
-
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
-
Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
-
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
-
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
-
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
-
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
-
I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
-
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
-
I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
-
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
-
I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.
-
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
-
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
-
The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
-
Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
-
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
-
The value of a good idea is in using it.
-
I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
-
Youth doesn't take advice.
-
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
-
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
-
There is time for everything.
-
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.
-
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .