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

Absorb ideas from every source.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

There is no substitute for hard work.

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

Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

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.

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

…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

I don’t need to be famous. I’m not that ambitious. At this point, if I’m not sucked in, I’m never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It’s not that deep.

I’m enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.