Thomas A. Edison Hard Work Quotations

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

There is no subsitute for hard work.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

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.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Success is the result of hard work.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.