The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
THOMAS EDISONMany of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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I think work is the world’s greatest fun.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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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.
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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.
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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Work while others are wishing.
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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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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.
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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