100+ Thomas Alva Edison Motivational Quotes In English

Thomas A. Edison was one of the most important inventors in history. Born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, Edison grew up in a time when new inventions were transforming the world. At age 12, he started working as a newsboy on a train, selling candy, newspapers, and snacks to passengers. This experience taught him about the value of hard work and entrepreneurship.

Thomas Alva  Edison Motivational Quotes

In 1862, at the age of 15, Edison became a telegraph operator. He worked for several years as a telegrapher, eventually becoming an expert in the field. However, he was not content with just working for someone else. He wanted to invent things himself.

Edison was also interested in electric lighting. In 1879, he invented the incandescent light bulb, which could provide light for hours without burning out. This invention paved the way for the modern electric lighting industry.

Thomas Alva  Edison Motivational Quotes In English

In addition to his work in the fields of sound and lighting, Edison was interested in motion pictures. In 1888, he invented the Kinetoscope, a device that allowed people to watch moving pictures. He later improved on this invention by developing a motion the picture camera that could record moving images.

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

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

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense."

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

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."

"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is a success."

"There's a way to do it better – find it."

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle."

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."

"I start where the last man left off."

"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."

"The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child."

"I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward."

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

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

"I never lose. I either win or learn."

"Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

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

"I am not a failure because I have failed. I am a failure because I have given up."

"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

"There is no substitute for hard work."

"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

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

"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is that it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"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."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."

"The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life."

"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."

"Vision without execution is hallucination."

"Hell, there are no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something."

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

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do."

"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

"Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."