Quotes from Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

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.

Religion is all bunk.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

All Bibles are man-made.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

Work while others are wishing.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Success is the result of hard work.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.