"Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward"
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Thomas A. Edison
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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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Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.
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Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to…
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I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and…
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The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy,…
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were…
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Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that…
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It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the…
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