Thomas Edison Action Quotes

What you are will show in what you do

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I failed my way to success.

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas Edison

I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

- Thomas Edison

Hell, there are no rules here, we’re trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas Edison

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator

- Thomas Edison

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas Edison

A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

- Thomas Edison

Your degree is just a piece of paper, Your education is seen in your behaviour.

- Anonymous

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

- Marcia Wieder

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it

- Stephen Covey

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

- Jean Paul Richter

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Johann Von Schiller

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

- Gurdjieff

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

- Nagarjuna

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

- Bhagavad Gita