Attempt Quote by Thomas A. Edison Download Open image “Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward” — Thomas A. Edison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attempt Attempt Discarded Determination Determination and success Determination motivational Determination perseverance Discarded Discarded Step Discouraged Failure Great determination I have made mistakes Inspirational Inspirational determination Motivation and determination Perseverance Step forward Steps Steps forward Success / failure Will and determination Wrong Attempt
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. =) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
Failure is not the end, it's an opportunity to try again, you know where you went wrong the first time, and so the next… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better. — Joan Lunden Copy Share Image
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football. — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
