Motivational Quotes and Inspirational Quotes
by Thomas Edison

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Failure

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions.... The dove is my emblem.... I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it.... I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill....
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Life

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Opportunity

Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Character

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Action

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Determination, Persistence

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Health

The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Life

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Focus

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
- Thomas Edison  
Motivational Quotes Category: Time