Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

We shall either find a way or make one.

Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'

Passion means finding a way.

If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

make away out of no way

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.