Never stop learning. Read the entire panorama of literature. To celebrate Edison’s 168th birthday today, here are some of my favorite and most inspirational Edison quotes. I hope they inspire you to greatness.
– THOMAS EDISON.
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
-THOMAS EDISON.
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”
-THOMAS EDISON.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
-THOMAS EDISON.
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying.
– THOMAS EDISON.
“When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
-THOMAS EDISON.
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
– THOMAS EDISON.
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
Thomas Edison
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