Quotes from Thomas Alva Edison

I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

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

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.