Thomas A. Edison Professions : Inventor Born : February 11, 1847 Died : October 18, 1931 Browse All Authors Top 349 quotes by Thomas A. Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison motivational positive inspirational I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison motivational inspirational funny Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison motivational life funny Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future Thomas A. Edison care tomorrow paper Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination Thomas A. Edison entrepreneur vision motivational Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration! Thomas A. Edison perspiration inspiration business The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success. Thomas A. Edison giving-up sports men The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. Thomas A. Edison action success commitment There is a better way for everything. Find it. Thomas A. Edison better-ways inspirational way 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 stress memories children I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work. Thomas A. Edison failure mistake opportunity I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. Thomas A. Edison self-discipline light steps 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 single motivational inspirational A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison. Thomas A. Edison stupid home teacher People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward Thomas A. Edison succeed steps people The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world. Thomas A. Edison inspirational men world 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 health fitness motivational When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. Thomas A. Edison martial-arts way Never go to sleep Thomas A. Edison subconscious mind sleep Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison motivational inspirational life Similar Authors Arthur P. Warner inventor Arthur Fry inventor Bill Lear inventor Itzhak Bentov inventor Dr. An Wang inventor David Dunbar Buick inventor All Authors
