Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thinking expansively includes seeing what is possible and making it happen.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Always think positively and expect the best.

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself, “Nothing is impossible!!!”

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.