Quotes from Thomas Edison

genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration

I have not failed. I have just found 10, 000 ways it will NOT work.

If you want to succeed, get some enemies.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

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

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

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.