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

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Vision without execution is delusion.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.

What you are will show in what you do.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

We do not suffer by accident.

There is nothing that is an accident.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.