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Motivational Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
- Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
- I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
- Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of…
- My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....
- My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....
- I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
- Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without…
- Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others…
- A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
- Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than…
- Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
- As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could…
- Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not…
- The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I…
- From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain…
- Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
- Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises…
- I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
- I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available…
- The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror…
- To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our…
- We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the…
- 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.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong