Thomas A. Edison Life Quotations

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

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. ~

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.