Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
There's a way to do it better – find it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.
I start where the last man left off.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
What you are will show in what you do.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the one thing that he can't afford to lose.
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
