Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

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

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.

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

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

What you are will show in what you do.

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

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

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.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.