Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles
  can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train
  the mind to think.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Pain, Thinking, Brain

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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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• You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Goal, Realizing

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• Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• Vision without execution is delusion.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Vision, Execution

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Inspiration, Perspiration

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sleep, Mind, Subconscious

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, People, Willful Ignorance

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• The secret of success is focus of purpose.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Focus, Secret, Purpose

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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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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• Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Courage, Have Faith

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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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• The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Danger, Peril, Inactivity

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• Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Moving, Goal

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• People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

  Thomas A. Edison

  People, Succeed, Steps

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