Quotes by Thomas Edison

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

If I had not had so much ambition and had not tried to do so many things I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.

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.  ~Thomas A. Edison

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

If there is a way to do it better... find it.

We don't know a millionth of 1 percent about anything.

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