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

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

Do the thing and the power will come.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

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

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don’t give in to them.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.