Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
Tomorrow is my exam but I don’t care because a single sheet of paper can’t decide my future.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.