62 Famous Quotes by Thomas Edison

1. “Vision without execution is hallucination.”

2. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. “

3. “Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying. “

4. “What you are will show in what you do.”

5. “I start where the last man left off.”

6. “There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”

7. “Learn with both your head and hands.”

8. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

9. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

10. “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.”

11. “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”

12. “Not everything of value in life comes from books- experience the world.”

13. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

14. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

15. “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

16. “Never stop learning. Read the entire panorama of literature.”

17. “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

18. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

19. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

20. “I failed my way to success.”

21. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

22. “Not everything of value in life comes from books– experience the world.”

23. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.”

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

25. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it. “

26. “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”

27. “Tomorrow is my exam but I don’t care because a single sheet of paper can’t decide my future. “

28. “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. “

29. “Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”

30. “Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant.”

31. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

32.”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. “

33. “Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. “

34. “We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present. “

35. “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.”

36. “Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. “

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

38. “If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children , they will leave them an estate of incalculable value. “

39. “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy–sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. “

40. “Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!.”

41. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. “

42. “When a man desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. “

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

44. “I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off. “

45. “What a man’s mind can create, man’s character should control. “

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

47. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

48. “The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

49. “I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. “

50. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

51. “There are no rules – we’re trying to accomplish something.”

52. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

53. “You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.”

54. “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.”

55. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

56. “I never did anything worth doing by accident.”

57. “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. “

58. “We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.”

59. “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

60. “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”

61. “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

62. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”