Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

• What you are will show in what you do.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Will

• 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.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Highest, Until, Violence

• 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.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Intelligence, Work

  Tags in Always, Object, Production, Honest, Purpose, Being

• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Success

  Tags in World, Greatest, Pleasure, Find

• The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Recognize, People, Like, Reason, Usually

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fully, Decided, Trial, Getting, Until

• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Discontent, Necessity

• There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Ability, Opportunity

  Tags in Far

• I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Accident, Anything

• Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Proof, Want, Anything
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  Thomas edison’s last words were “it’s beautiful over there” i don’t know where there is but i believe it’s somewhere and i hope it’s beautiful.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Believe, Hope

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Effort, Work

  Tags in Seems, People

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Overalls, Favor, Whose, Swap, Would, World, Friends, Kings

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Consists, Worth

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry
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  If we did all the things we were capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Motivational

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Expectations

• Religion is all bunk.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Religion
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  The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Tags in Way, More, Most, Certain

• Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Confusion, Progress, Risk

Thomas Alva Edison (60)

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

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