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There is no substitute for hard work. ...
by Thomas Edison

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

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Quotes by Thomas Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

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

 

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

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung

No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck

Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler

Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson


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