"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
-Thomas A. Edison
workView Quote
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.“
-Thomas A. Edison
posted in failure
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
workView Quote
"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
-Thomas A. Edison
workView Quote
"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."
-Thomas A. Edison
workView Quote
"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."
-Thomas A. Edison
workView Quote
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
-Thomas A. Edison
workView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
-Aldrich Ames
failureView Quote
"There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit."
-Craig Breedlove
failureView Quote
"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
-Tony Richardson
failureView Quote
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
-Edward Eggleston
failureView Quote
"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
-Arthur C. Danto
failureView Quote
"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
-Michael Savage
failureView Quote