Thomas Alva Edison

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

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

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

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

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.

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

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

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.

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

There's a way to do it better - find it.

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

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.