100+ Best Edison Quotes That Inspire Success & Innovation

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

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

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

“Just because everything is not lost, there is still hope.”

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.”

“Persistence is essential. If you don't persist, nothing else matters.”

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

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

“Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

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

“Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results.”

“Failures are only the opportunities to begin again more intelligently.”

“I never quit until I get what I'm after. Negative results are just positive results in disguise.”

“When you fall, get back up. That's what success is all about.”

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.”

“I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.”

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

“The only genuine knowledge is experience.”

“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession, and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

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

“There is no substitute for hard work.”

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

“The amount of work done is always proportional to the amount of energy applied.”

“Effort without purpose is wasted energy.”

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“We are all inventors—each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.”

“Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”

“Every great invention came from a crazy idea.”

“What one engineer can do, another can undo—but only imagination creates.”

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“A quality of mind is required which can face facts, even though they contradict preconceived notions.”

“There’s a better way to do it — find it.”

“We are all inventors—each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.”

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

“The next century will be run by those who can manage complexity.”

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

“Improvement is accomplished by slow degrees; sudden changes being dangerous and generally unsuccessful.”

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

“There is always a better way.”

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”

“Tomorrow is not promised, but today is yours to shape.”

“The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by inspiration—they came by experiment.”

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.”

“Education is not just schools—it is the whole process of life.”

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

“Knowledge comes from experience alone.”

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

“To learn, you must teach yourself.”

“Curiosity is the spark behind the spark of every great idea.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.”

“The desire to learn drives progress.”

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

“Confidence is the foundation of achievement.”

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

“You cannot fail unless you stop trying.”

“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”

“Great ideas come from confidence, not arrogance.”

“Self-doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

“Dare to think independently. Dare to challenge norms.”

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

“Success begins with belief—first in the idea, then in yourself.”

“The only limits are the ones you set.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Time is really the only capital that any human being has.”

“Wasting time is the worst form of waste.”

“The trouble with doing something right away is that you forget it until it's too late.”

“Good fortune usually happens when opportunity meets preparation.”

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

“Being busy does not always mean real work.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”

“Time wasted is existence; used, it is life.”

“The key to success is to start before you are ready.”

“What we call 'time management' is really choice management.”

“Productivity grows when passion meets purpose.”

“I never quit until I get what I'm after.”

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

“Purpose fuels persistence.”

“The man who succeeds is the one who tries.”

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.”

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

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.”

“Desire is the key to motivation.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

“The best things in life are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.”

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame.”

“We are all inventors—each sailing out on a voyage of discovery.”

“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”

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

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

“Peace begins with a smile.”

“The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”