“Remember, nothing that's good works by itself just to please you. You've got to make the damn thing work.”— Thomas Edison, amazon.com
“The trouble with other inventors is that they try a few things and quit. I never quit until I get what I want.”— Thomas Edison, amazon.com
“I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it untenable, then it would be discarded and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.”— Thomas Edison, amazon.com
“I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work, and some good luck are necessary too.”— Thomas Edison, amazon.com
“The trouble with telegraphic appliances is they can only be gotten out in the same way as the Irish pilot found the rocks in the harbor–with the bottom of his boat.”— Thomas Edison, amazon.com
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill: our antagonist is our helper.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have–life itself.”— Walter Anderson, amazon.com
“The person that chose to act this way was acting with a God-given right to use his free agency and God can't take that away... that's what he chose to do with it. I'm not mad. I have my own agency to use this event to do whatever I can to make sure my wife and daughters are taken care of.”— Robert Parker, nydailynews.com
“Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowing opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement–these are the martial virtues which must command success.”— Austin Phelps, amazon.com
“Three things are necessary: First, backbone. Second, backbone. Third, backbone.”— Charles Sumner, amazon.com
“You're up against superhuman power, can't you see? The will of God is against you. Bow to God!”— Virgil, amazon.com
“Always, through everything, I try to straighten my spine, or my soul. They both ought to be upright I feel, for pride, for style, for reality's sake, but both tend to bend under a weight that has been carried a long time. I try to lighten my burden by knowing it, I try to walk lightly, and sometimes…”— Florida Maxwell Scott, amazon.com
“[Henry Ford] is too small to be treated as an obstacle round which the course of the democratic party should be bent.”— Jefferson Davis, amazon.com
“Of your philosophy you make no use. If you give place to accidental evils.”— William Shakespeare, Cassius, amazon.com