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!
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

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 Quote

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

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.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Religion is all bunk.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

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.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

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.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

What you are will show in what you do.
- Thomas A. Edison Quote

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 A. Edison Quote