A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
THOMAS EDISONOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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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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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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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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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.
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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
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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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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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I am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.
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