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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

Vision without execution is delusion.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Vision, Execution

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

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

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.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Business, Creativity

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Positive, Business
"Geek mythology and Nikola Tesla" by Rebekah Higgitt, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2012.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational
"Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Smart, Failure

I start where the last man left off.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Positive, Men
"Makers of the Modern World : The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1955.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
"Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life". Book by Francis Arthur Jones, 1908.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas A. Edison
Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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