Thomas Edison Failures 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

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old and was considered not very bright. Oprah Winfrey was demoted from a news anchor job because she was thought to be unfit for television. Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper for lacking imagination. Thomas Edison was called stupid by his teachers. The Beatles were told they didn't have a great sound and rejected by Decca Recording Studios. Dr. Suess was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. Abraham Lincoln had a long list of failures, including eight election losses and a nervous breakdown. — Tim Suttle

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit! — Napoleon Hill

Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty. — Michel De Montaigne

It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk. — Ladyhawke

Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment. — Dada Bhagwan

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger. — Charles M. Schulz

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We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck. — Ilona Andrews

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

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS. — Clive James

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

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat. — Stephanie Klein