Thomas Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
There is time for everything.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Religion is all bunk.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.