Failure By Thomas Edison Quotes & Sayings

43. Don't let past failures determine what your future success will be. Walt Disney went bankrupt - twice - before finally gaining lasting momentum. The Beatles were rejected from numerous record labels, as was Tom Petty. Thomas Edison failed at creating the light bulb ten thousand times before getting it right! If he used failure as an indicator of his true path, you might be reading this by candlelight. — Derek Rydall

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy. — Thomas A. Edison

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. — Thomas A. Edison

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success. — Thomas A. Edison

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on. — Frank Zappa

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really. — Kim Gordon

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up. — Thomas A. Edison

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. — Glen Duncan

What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively. — Stacey D'Erasmo

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. — Thomas A. Edison

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option. — Thomas A. Edison

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure! — Thomas A. Edison

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private. — Shawn Amos

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today. — Benjamin Carson

When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again. — Julian Barnes

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. — Thomas A. Edison

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached. — Thomas A. Edison

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure. — Thomas A. Edison

I Failed My Way To Success. — Thomas Edison

Not of exhaustion, but surrender, as though he had given over and relinquished completely that grip upon that blending of pride and hope and vanity and fear, that strength to cling to either defeat or victory, which is the I-Am, and the relinquishment of which is usually death. — William Faulkner

Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work. — Thomas A. Edison

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it. — Troy Brown

I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it. — Colleen Atwood

Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there.
Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice. — Shan Sa

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. — Thomas A. Edison

The more you try to avoid something, the more you create it. There is no such thing as avoidance in energy because the energy is focused on the fear, not the desire. This is why we create things we don't want and can't understand how we did it. It's usually because we took actions to avoid something we feared instead of taking actions to create the thing we desire. — Emily Maroutian

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way. — Thomas A. Edison

[In any] machine, the failure of one part to cooperate properly with the other part disorganizes the whole and renders it inoperative for the purpose intended. - THOMAS EDISON R — Graham Moore

His temper, always so close to the surface these days, was rising again. — J.K. Rowling

Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't. — Thomas A. Edison

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them. — Lindsay Lohan

You only fail when you stop trying. — Thomas Edison

I have had a lot of success with failure — Thomas A. Edison