Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

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  Tags in Time, Always, Greatest, Weakness, Just

• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Advice, Children
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  There is a time for everything.

  Thomas Alva Edison

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Attitude, Opportunity, Work

  Tags in People, Dressed

• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Absurd, Most, Often, Maturity
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  I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Failure, Inspirational, Work

  Tags in Found, Perseverance
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  I will not say i failed 1000 times, i will say that i discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Failure
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  Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Genius, Inspirational, Work

  Tags in Persistence, Percent
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  I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Immortality, Heaven, Hell

• What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The phonograph…is not of any commercial value.

  Thomas Alva Edison

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• Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Inspirational

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Inspirational, Success

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Need, Science
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  If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Literally, Capable, Things, Capacity, Science

• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Wait, Everything, While, Action
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  Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Failure, Inspirational, Life, Success

  Tags in People, Persistence, Realize, Perseverance

• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Hard Work, Miscellaneous
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  The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will Cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Disease, Prevent

• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inspiration, Define

Thomas Alva Edison (60)

Birth:	11th February, 1847
Death:	18th October, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Inventor

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