"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of……" — Thomas A. Edison
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
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279 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I…
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.…
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what…
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Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough…
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Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men…
— Susan B. Anthony
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is…
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Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there…
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
— Eric Hoffer
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
— William Shakespeare
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
— Berthold Auerbach
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