→ We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
→ To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
→ Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
→ You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
→ I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
→ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
→ One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
→ A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
One of these may be attributed to Thomas Edison. Which one?
→ Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
→ A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
→ We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
→ Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn’t everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.
Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Thomas Edison.
→ Desire creates the power.
→ We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy: sun, wind and tide... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
→ The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
→ Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
One of the following quotations belongs to Thomas Edison. Which one?
→ Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
→ Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.
→ Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
→ If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.