Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Thomas EdisonEdison & Ford Quote Book (2003); no primary source
About Thomas Edison
American inventor of the phonograph and a practical electric light bulb. (1847-1931)
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- Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.Confirmed by Edison in Harper's Monthly (1932)
- Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948)
- We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.Quoted in Golden Book magazine (1931)
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- If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.Martin Luther King Jr.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass
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