60 Inspirational and Wise Thomas Edison Quotes
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Thomas Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who is regarded as being one of the most prolific inventors of all time. He had a major impact on modern life, contributing inventions in areas such as electric power generation, communication, motion pictures, and sound recording.
Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Edison would work as a telegraph operator early in his career. He developed many of his early inventions in his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, which he established in 1876. As a man who lived an active and complex life full of projects and business ventures, Edison clearly used his Everyday Power well. There are a lot of lessons we can learn from his life and words of wisdom.
Below is collection of inspirational, wise and thought-provoking Thomas Edison quotes:
1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
2. “What you are will show in what you do.” – Thomas A. Edison
3. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas A. Edison
4. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” – Thomas A. Edison
5. “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” – Thomas A. Edison
6. “Not everything of value in life comes from books- experience the world.” – Thomas A. Edison
7. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” – Thomas A. Edison
8. “Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant.” – Thomas A. Edison
9. “Vision without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas A. Edison
10. “You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.” – Thomas A. Edison
11. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison
12. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas A. Edison
13. “We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.” – Thomas A. Edison
14. “I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience.” – Thomas A. Edison
15. “I don’t live with the past; I am living for to-day and to-morrow.” – Thomas A. Edison
16. “What a man’s mind can create, man’s character should control.” – Thomas A. Edison
17. “I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.” – Thomas A. Edison
18. “Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.” – Thomas A. Edison
19. “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” – Thomas A. Edison
20. “Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!” – Thomas A. Edison
21. “Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.” – Thomas A. Edison
22. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
23. “Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying.” – Thomas A. Edison
24. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
25. “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” – Thomas A. Edison
26. “Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we’re just trying to accomplish something.” – Thomas A. Edison
27. “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” – Thomas A. Edison
28. “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
29. “The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.” – Thomas A. Edison
30. “I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.” – Thomas A. Edison
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31. “There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas A. Edison
32. “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas A. Edison
33. “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
34. “We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.” – Thomas A. Edison
35. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.” – Thomas A. Edison
36. “The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.” — Thomas Edison
37. “Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.” – Thomas A. Edison
38. “I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
39. “If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.” – Thomas A. Edison
40. “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
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41. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.” – Thomas A. Edison
42. “Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.” – Thomas A. Edison
43. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas A. Edison
44. “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.” – Thomas A. Edison
45. “We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.” – Thomas A. Edison
46. “The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” – Thomas A. Edison
47. “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” – Thomas A. Edison
48. “The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. They may even discover the germ of old age.” – Thomas A. Edison
49. “I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.” – Thomas A. Edison
50. “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” – Thomas A. Edison
51. “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge…” – Thomas Edison
52. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”― Thomas A. Edison
53. “When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.” – Thomas Edison
54. “The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”― Thomas A. Edison
55. “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”
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56. “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
57. “Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”― Thomas A. Edison
58. “There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.”― Thomas A. Edison
59. “To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”― Thomas A. Edison
60. “I have never failed, I’ve only shown the way I did it before doesn’t work.”― Thomas A. Edison