Quotes about inspirational
inspirational motivational success
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational motivational real
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 A. Edison
inspirational science trying
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it Thomas A. Edison
inspirational failure way
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational life motivational
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational rich electricity
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational positive men
I start where the last man left off. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational science imagination-creativity
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational ideas acting
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.... Thomas A. Edison
inspirational positive business
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational motivational happiness
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational life fun
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational ideas contrary
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! Thomas A. Edison
inspirational life motivational
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational way better-ways
There is a better way for everything. Find it. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational motivational positive
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational karma running
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational motivational failure
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational motivational positive
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational life motivational
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational funny motivational
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational motivational positive
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison
inspirational motivational new-day
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational time moving-forward
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational attitude positive-thinking
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational life nature
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational funny humor
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational life motivational
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational beautiful men
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational beauty nature
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational peace power
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational friendship true-friend
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational life-lesson order
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day. Ralph Waldo Emerson