Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 3

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Work, Common Sense

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• Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

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  Real, Satisfaction In Life, Satisfaction

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• Do the thing and the power will come.

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• The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise

  Thomas A. Edison

  Exercise, Doctors, Air

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• Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

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  Sports, Encouragement, Accomplishment

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• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Brain, Mind, Body

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

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  Danger, Peril, Inactivity

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• I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Alcohol, Brain, Poison

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• My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Quality, Stopping, Ability

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• Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Father, Persistence, Brave

  "A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents" by Ken Blackwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2011.

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• A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Ideas, Mind

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• Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Kind, Application, Products

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• The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• I get my ideas from listening from within.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Listening

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• There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Thank God, Disaster

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• Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

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  Powerful, Goal, Behind You

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• IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

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  Motivational, Family, Education

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• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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  Drinking, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Stevenson's Book of Quotations". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1938.

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• When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

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  Sunshine, Wind, Energy

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• The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

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  Art, Lying, Ideas

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• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

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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 know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

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  Spiritual, Infinite Intelligence, Law

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• What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

  Thomas A. Edison

  College, Never Stop Learning, Learning Life

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