Thomas A. Edison
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Collection: Science
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!Collection: Faith
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.Collection: Motivational
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.Collection: Business
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.Collection: Inspirational
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.Collection: Success
There is no substitute for hard work.Collection: Work
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.Collection: Work
What you are will show in what you do.Collection: Work
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.Collection: Work
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Collection: Work
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.Collection: Business
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Collection: Imagination
There's a way to do it better - find it.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Work
Religion is all bunk.Collection: Religion
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.Collection: Wisdom
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.Collection: Work
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.Collection: Time
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.Collection: Wisdom
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.Collection: Intelligence
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.Collection: Diet
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.Collection: Success
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.Collection: Best
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.Collection: Friendship
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.Collection: Work
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.Collection: Life
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Collection: Failure
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.Collection: Failure
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.Collection: Funny
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.Collection: Success
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.Collection: Imagination
Great ideas originate in the muscles.Collection: Imagination
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
I start where the last man left off.
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.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.