I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of. Thomas A. Edison More Quotes by Thomas A. Edison More Quotes From 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 motivationalpositiveinspirational I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison motivationalinspirationalfunny Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison motivationallifefunny Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future Thomas A. Edison caretomorrowpaper Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination Thomas A. Edison entrepreneurvisionmotivational Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration! Thomas A. Edison perspirationinspirationbusiness The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success. Thomas A. Edison giving-upsportsmen The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. Thomas A. Edison actionsuccesscommitment There is a better way for everything. Find it. Thomas A. Edison better-waysinspirationalway 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 stressmemorieschildren I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work. Thomas A. Edison failuremistakeopportunity I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. Thomas A. Edison self-disciplinelightsteps 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 singlemotivationalinspirational 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 stupidhometeacher 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 succeedstepspeople The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world. Thomas A. Edison inspirationalmenworld 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 healthfitnessmotivational When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. Thomas A. Edison martial-artsway Never go to sleep Thomas A. Edison subconsciousmindsleep Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison motivationalinspirationallife
