Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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• There is a better way for everything. Find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Way, Better Ways

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• Youth doesn't take advice.

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  Advice, Youth

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• I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Failure, Opportunity

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• Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Courage, Have Faith

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• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Commitment, Action

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• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Imagination, Innovation

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Inspiration, Perspiration

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• I never quit until I get what I want.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Want, Never Quit, Quitting

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Willful Ignorance

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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• Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

  Thomas A. Edison

  Paper, Care, Tomorrow

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• Never go to sleep
  without a request to your subconscious.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sleep, Mind, Subconscious

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Survival, Firsts, Week

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• Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, People, Bothered

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• The secret of success is focus of purpose.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Focus, Secret, Purpose

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• Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sports, Encouragement, Accomplishment

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• What you are will show in what you do.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivation, Action, Human Nature

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• I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Steps, Self Discipline

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• Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ambition, Imagination, Plus

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