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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.

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

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

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

Thomas A. Edison
Mistake, Failure, Opportunity

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

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Way, Better Ways

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

Thomas A. Edison
Failure, Failing

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.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

Thomas A. Edison
Business, Inspiration, Perspiration

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

Thomas A. Edison
Dream, Goal, Realizing

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

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

Thomas A. Edison
Light, Steps, Self Discipline

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.

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

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Karma, Running

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

Thomas A. Edison
Focus, Secret, Purpose

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Thomas A. Edison
Ballet, Doe, Genius

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Men, World

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Courage, Have Faith

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

Thomas A. Edison
Time, Humans, Human Beings

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

Thomas A. Edison
Survival, Firsts, Week

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

Thomas A. Edison
Success, Commitment, Action

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

Thomas A. Edison
Sleep, Mind, Subconscious

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

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

Thomas A. Edison
Children, Imagination, Innovation

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

Vision without execution is delusion.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Vision, Execution

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