- Inspired by love, guided by knowledge.
- Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become... habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become.
- If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
- It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
Thomas A. Edison:
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. - Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.
- What you are will show in what you do.
- The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
- I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- I never did a day’s work in my life. it was all fun.
- There is time for everything.
- Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
- Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
- We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.
- The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
- Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
- I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- If we did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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