461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for – someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Large portions of life’s disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

Education isn’t play – and it can’t be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Any large extension of the Government into business affairs – no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled – will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

No, I haven’t failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.