50+ Thomas Edison Quotes That Will Keep You Motivated 2024

2. “The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.” – Thomas Edison

3. “Opportunity is missed because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

4. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when.” – Thomas Edison

5. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

6. “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” – Thomas Edison

7. “A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.” ― Thomas Edison

8. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” – Thomas Edison

9. “Vision without execution is a hallucination.” – Thomas Edison

10. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the things that he can least afford to waste or lose.” – Thomas Edison

11. “Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.” – Thomas Edison

13. “To my mind, the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.” – Thomas Edison

14. “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

15. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas Edison

16. “I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” – Thomas Edison

17. “Courage is everything. “Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business.” – Thomas Edison

18. “The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” – Thomas Edison

19. “So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.” ― Thomas Edison

20. “It’s very beautiful over there.” ― Thomas Edison

21. “I have never failed, I’ve only shown the way I did it before doesn’t work.” ― Thomas Edison

22. “I haven’t failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas Edison

23. “The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” ― Thomas Edison

24. “There is no substitute for hard work.” ― Thomas Edison

26. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas Edison

27. “We often miss an opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ― Thomas Edison

28. “Five percent of the people think, ten percent of the people think they think, and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” ― Thomas Edison

29. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” ― Thomas Edison

30. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” ― Thomas Edison

31. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” ― Thomas Edison

32. “It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.” ― Thomas Edison

34. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.” ― Thomas Edison

36. “He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.” ― Thomas Edison

38. “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.” ― Thomas Edison

39. “There are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something.” ― Thomas Edison

40. “The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” ― Thomas Edison

41. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” ― Thomas Edison

42. “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” ― Thomas Edison

43. “I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.” ― Thomas Edison

44. “I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” ― Thomas Edison

45. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” ― Thomas Edison

46. “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.” ― Thomas Edison

47. “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” ― Thomas Edison

48. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.” ― Thomas Edison

49. “The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” ― Thomas Edison

50. “I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.” ― Thomas Edison

51. “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 Edison

52. “Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.” ― Thomas Edison

53. “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 Edison

54. “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” ― Thomas Edison

55. “All Bibles are man-made.” ― Thomas Edison

56. “There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labour of thinking.” ― Thomas Edison

57. “Nature is truly wonderful. Only a man is truly foul.” ― Thomas Edison