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

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  Paper, Care, Tomorrow

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

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  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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

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  Inspirational, Way, Better Ways

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

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  Success, Commitment, Action

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Inspiration, Perspiration

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• The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

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  Sports, Giving Up, Men

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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.

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  Children, Memories, Stress

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

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  Mistake, Failure, Opportunity

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

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  Light, Steps, Self Discipline

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• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

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  Jobs, Coal, Pieces

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

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  Sleep, Mind, Subconscious

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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

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  People, Succeed, Steps

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• A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

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  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

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  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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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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• When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

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  Inspirational, Karma, Running

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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."

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  Dream, Moving, Goal

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• The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

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  Thinking, People, Quitting

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

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  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

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  Way, Causes

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• Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

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  Lesson Learned, Lessons, Strategy

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