Light Up Your Life with These 30+ Inspirational Quotes from Thomas Edison, the Genius Inventor!

 Here are 30+ motivational quotes by Thomas Edison, the inventor, and businessman:

1. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
2. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
3. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
4. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
5. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
6. "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
7. "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."
8. "There's a way to do it better - find it."
9. "The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
10. "The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do."
11. "Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."
12. "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."
13. "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
14. "If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
15. "I start where the last man left off."
16. "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
17. "The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
18. "The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child."
19. "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."
20. "The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
21. "The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life."
22. "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
23. "I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
24. "Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."
25. "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
26. "I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible."
27. "I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work."
28. "The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast."
29. "I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
30. "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."