Thomas Edison Progress Quotes

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

- Thomas Edison

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

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.

- Henry Ford

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

- Thomas Edison

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

- George Bernard Shaw

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

- Plato

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

- Abraham Lincoln