“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison     “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas A. Edison   “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work” ― Thomas A. Edison     “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.” ― Thomas A. Edison     “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” ―…

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” ― Thomas Carlyle     “If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.” ― Thomas Carlyle     “I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” ― Thomas Carlyle     “All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” ― Thomas Carlyle  …

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ― Michael jordan     “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” ― Michael Jordan     “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ― Michael Jordan     “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” ― Michael Jordan     “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen,…