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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

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

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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.

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.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Courage, Have Faith

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.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness
"The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Thinking, Littles

Work while others are wishing.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Work, Stay Positive

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

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Worry, Focus

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

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
"Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

There is always a better way.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Self Reliance, Way

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Meaningful, Thinking

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

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Fitness, Health

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.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Single

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Failure
"The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

I failed my way to success.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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 A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Real
Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Couple, Men

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