Quotes from Thomas A. Edison

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

Friendship is the heaven of life.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

I have had a lot of success with failure

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I haven't failed, I have just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.