Quotes By Thomas Alva Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

I never did a day's work in my life. it was all fun.

Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don'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 three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

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

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

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

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

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.

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.