Thomas Edison was the greatest inventor & his inventions have changed life on the planet Earth. The popular inventions are the electric light bulb, motion picture camera & phonograph. He has reported to have failed many times but his curiosity & passion kept him moving. With every failed experiment, he found another way to do things & finally succeeded in his inventions. Thomas Edison’s quotes are valuable & they have proof of success in spite of mass failures.
Quote 1
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Giving up means we are denying the potential of our inner abilities. We are saying that we do not have the power to reach the goal. The mind is doubting its own potential. But the doubting mind is the conscious thinking mind that is not aware of the subconscious mind having unlimited potential.
Giving up mindset rises its head because we do not get the expected results. We try for some days & see no fast results, we want to give up early. It is like giving an order to an online shopping site & expecting the physical delivery in seconds or minutes. Seeing the order has not been received in seconds, we cancel it by giving up.
When we give up once, we are starting a chain of giving up. When we take a new project or goal by giving up the previous one, there are high chance that the giving up pattern will repeat itself. After giving up on many goals, there will be great un-satisfaction in life. At this time, the pattern of giving up has synced deeper in the subconscious mind due to the repetition.
The good news is that we can break the chain of giving up by the hammer of not giving up until we reach the goal. To plant a new pattern of success, we need to start with very small goals at first. As the new chain of a pattern of success repeats itself, it will be stronger on every small goal that we achieve. The confidence will reach new heights with every new success.
Quote 2
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Successful people try until they succeed. Their every step towards the goal is the ladder that makes them climb the home of success. The failure rate is higher in this process because the successful one is trying different ways & discovering the solution to bring the results he wants. He won’t stop with a few failures, he will try again in various different ways & this will continue till the goal is achieved.
There is nothing like failure for a successful person. His commitment towards his goal is not work but it comes out of passion because he is working on something that he loves to do. He is not living & working on someone else’s dream but he has found his own dream & he works on his own dreams with freedom in his heart. In this route of achieving the dream he gets so involved in it with totality that he forgets the concept of failure, he is focused completely on the outcome.
Discovering the correct solution or the route to the outcome, not only helps the successful person alone, it helps the whole of humanity. The things that he has tried & have not worked, save the time of the other people doing the same thing because the successful person has already researched & found the ways that won’t work so they can be skipped by other people saving their precious time.
A successful person becomes successful by succeeding & not giving up until he reaches success. The average person gives up very early in a few attempts. The successful ones are ready to try 10,000 different ways. This shows their mental toughness & stubbornness towards their goals. It shows how badly they wanted it & how passionate they are about reaching their dreams.
Quote 3
“Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is a hallucination.”
Setting the vision is only the first step toward the goal. The vision has to be filled with clarity & detailing. Setting a vision should be for the thing that you love to do most. The goals should be exciting & joyful, they should make you wake up early in the morning & your mind completely set towards the achievement of the goal.
When vision is set on the thing that you want & love to do then execution happens in a most natural way. Nobody has to force you to do these things. Nobody has to tell you to do the execution, it automatically happens because of the zest that you have for that goal.
When there is no execution that simply means that you do not love the goal that is set. This kind of forced vision of goals affixed upon you by other people remains unexecuted. There is no totality of effort, the effort has no aliveness in it & it is just like death. This vision remains a hallucination because to fulfill any vision execution is needed.
When the vision is set & is clear, we have to set a plan & list the action steps that we will do every day to reach the vision. Performing the execution of steps day by day we come closer to reaching the vision. There may come lots of troubles in between but the vision is very much set in the mind & there is no stopping till it is manifested into a reality. The everyday effort that is done with persistence pays off & one day from nowhere we can see the goal in our hands.
Quote 4
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
It is like planting a tree and nurturing it & the tree grows but still, there are no flowers in it. The tree has grown bigger & flowers were expected to blossom but still no signs of them. In such a case, a person gives up & the flower that was about to blossom holds because of no nurturing further. The tree will fall because the owner has given up on it, there is no watering anymore, and there is no one to take care of it.
After doing a lot of work for days & months, one should not give up because no one knows the goal might be just one step ahead. It is like the story of a person who was digging for gold. He made a great effort, he invested his time & money. He was hoping for a big amount from the gold. The gold showed some signs but after some time everything disappeared. Seeing this the person gave up the digging & sold the machinery as junk. It was later found that gold was just 3 feet away from where the person stopped digging.
Success requires total commitment till the goal is achieved. It requires patience & a belief that it is possible. With this state of success in mind, a person refuses to give up. He is ready to wait till the end & there is no compromise. When the outcome is not showing up, he will try something new, he will discover different ways to achieve the goal.
The mind of a failure is continuously telling him the reasons for his inability to reach the goal. It is trying to convince him that he cannot achieve it & he is not good enough to be worthy of the goal. A person can do lots of hard work & still he will fail not because he doesn’t have the potential but because his own mind has programmed him beforehand for failure.
Quote 5
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident, they came by work.”
The majority of people think that life is just an accident. Life situations happen by coincidence so why bother to put the effort into changing oneself? In summary, we do not have control over life situations & we are forced to live the life that we never desired in mind. The life of dreams that we want to live remains a dream & is buried in the mind itself, there is no manifestation because we think life is just by accident.
A successful person’s mindset differs from the mindset of an average person. The mindset matters for the success to be attracted. If the mindset of the average person changes then his results change, he takes a jump from an average mentality to a success mentality.
A successful person takes the first step of identifying his life desires & things that he loves to do. He was born to do these things so they are definitely hidden within the invisible mind. There isn’t any person who does not have any life purpose. It is a matter of identifying exactly what is in tune with you. The other people cannot identify it for us, we have to contemplate on our own & walk alone on the roads of the inner world to discover the purpose for which we are born to do.
Once the purpose is clarified then the half work is already done. We have covered the half journey already. This is a crucial step, we have to be in real sync with exactly that which we love doing. After getting clear on the goal, the massive action begins towards the achievement of it. These actions will have totality in them because we are doing something that we love the most. Then we design our life with our own hands, there isn’t any accidental mentality. We are designing our life by pouring our heart and soul into it & making it happen.
Quote 6
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
We are at our best when we connect to our inner selves. The inner world is an invisible dimension where mysteries are waiting for revelation. Powerful things are hidden in the mind & they allow us to achieve impossible things with the hidden cosmic powers. The inner world is still & stable, it is not chaotic like the outer world. It has our connection to the ultimate source of cosmic energy.
The outer world is full of turmoil, we are lost when we connect to others. We get busy more with irrelevant things & one negative thing converts into mass negative things. There are all kinds of people surrounding us & not everyone is a positive thinker. Indeed most of them are filled with negativities, once we join them we also dive into the conversations of negative thoughts.
When we are in solitude & connect to the inner self then the inner one guides us to enhance our quality of living. It directs us to make changes that will in turn change everything for us. In the relaxed state of mind, we are guided to the divine solutions that were not possible in the outside world. These solutions come from the cosmic intelligence that is best for us that no one else can tell us.
Successful men can be found more in solitude & they gain powers & become more powerful than ordinary men. Ordinary men are involved in partying, celebrations, gossiping, and chattering. Successful men are involved in solitude, higher thinking, looking for solutions, enriching the growth of the mind, developing personal skills, and making the mind disciplined & focused. Successful men like to live with themselves, they enjoy their own company and they do not need anyone for their entertainment. They design their life in solitude & manifest it in reality by connecting to the higher self within solitude.
Quote 7
“There’s a way to do it better, find it.”
Life is always expanding & growing like a tree. New branches are expanded & there are new leaves & fruits. The tree doesn’t stop or hold its growth, the life force energy within it allows the growth & it expands in the direction of the sky growing taller. Similarly, there has been growth & expansion of the things around us. There has been more expansion of material things.
We are living in the world of technology & have discovered many things at our disposal that were not present before a few centuries ago. We are fortunate to live in a world of advanced technology. Life is growing & making us comfortable with the work done by technology. Transport, airplanes, the invention of light, mobile phones, wireless technology, internet, online shopping, televisions, and videos are all results of someone finding a better way to do things.
Someone has searched for a better way to live life & invented many things that make our life comfortable. If they had not searched for the better then life would have been different & worse. The thought of growth, the thought of expansion, and the thought of finding better ways are the origin of greater inventions. But this thought is not limited only to great inventions, it can be used in our daily routine activities.
In our work, in our passion, in our routine tasks, we can find better ways to do things. We can find smarter ways that will get things done in more qualitative & faster ways. We can intelligently tackle the problems & bring solutions that can be better than before. This makes the creativity flow & life becomes creative, fun-loving & filled with enthusiasm.
Quote 8
“I do not believe in the God of the theologians but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.”
All that we can see around us that is not created by human beings is beyond our understanding. It is out of our reach of mind to comprehend the creation process. We can see the sun, moon & sky & they are there which means someone has created them. The supreme intelligence has designed the creation of the planets & we can see how powerful it is.
The supreme intelligence has created trees, animals, birds, mountains, oceans, wind, stars & human beings. Its creativity is infinite & in abundance, everything we can see is unique & there are no duplicates created by intelligence. We can see that every face is unique, the voice of every human being is unique, the eyes are different and the fingerprints are different.
We are living in a miraculous world & it is right in front of us but we aren’t able to recognize its greatness because of the conscious mind disbelieving & doubting. The conscious mind is a very small part of the mind but it is also connected to supreme intelligence. It is also a creation of the supreme intelligence. It has been given to us so that we can also create something of our own. It is an expansion of the supreme intelligence & we can also see many things around us that are created by the human mind. There is a great intelligence hidden within every one of us & some people use it for inventions & discoveries that help the whole of humanity. While other people use it in normal activities.
Creation & destruction are two aspects of life. There is a creation on one hand & it is destroyed some other day, maybe after a long time or short time but destruction will happen. Supreme intelligence likes to create & it never stops creating, every new child born is its creation, every new flower that is spreading the fragrance is its creation, and every new moment it is creating something. Supreme intelligence should be praised & offered gratitude because we can see it everywhere. We cannot see the god anywhere & it remains a theoretical phenomenon.
Quote 9
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
We come across many opportunities every day. We might not be aware of them but the opportunities are all around us waiting for our action. When something bad strikes then we start looking for opportunities not until then. There are so many dimensions open everywhere & it’s our choice to enter in which dimension.
Opportunity is the only first step & it is just a beginning point to enter a new dimension. Opportunity is just like seeing a way, we can see some road out there & if someone stops just by watching the road there will be no journey held. A person will remain in the same place & he will live the same kind of life he was living previously. Opportunities are outside of our comfort zone & everything ahead is unpredictable & we are not used to it so the mind isn’t willing to go with the opportunities, it wants to stick to the old & will convince oneself to stay where they are.
The winners overcome the laziness of the mind & walk straight into the opportunities. They plan things cleverly so that opportunity turns into success. They work on the plans & if the plans fail they will come up with a new plan. They will do everything possible to reach success, they are not just the watchers but the performers.
When we see someone succeeding then we think that the person has a good fortune. This good fortune was available to everyone but only a few people saw the opportunities & acted on them. The rest people take it for granted & are happy in their life of troubles. They allow their minds to rule over them & they hold themselves back when they see any opportunity. Successful people do the exact opposite, they act on the opportunities & make it happen by their own hands & reap the benefits of good fortune.
Quote 10
“You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.”
A man gets into the car, turns on the engine & gears up then after traveling a short distance he doesn’t know where he is going to go. So what will happen next? The man will drive randomly to random places or he will return back to the home. This is the story of most people, they have no idea of what is to be done in life. They do not have a plan for their future life, they haven’t designed their dreams & have not identified their true dreams.
The destination isn’t clear so there isn’t a question of driving. The automobile of mind is present with everyone but the goal isn’t clear so there is no achievement. People are used to living their routine lives & cannot imagine a life beyond that routine. They have embraced the routine very tightly & are not ready to release it. They haven’t taken the time to think about their dreams & what they exactly want. They haven’t done the detailing about the future dream to be manifested.
The achievers plan their goals in detail, they write down everything in detail. They are absolutely clear about their outcome, they are the deliberate creators of their own destiny. They take the pen & paper and write the story of their new life. They direct their minds to their dreams & un-focus on all that is not relevant.
When one has a definite goal in his life then life becomes a joy because he has identified what he loves to do & then he does exactly that. He is working on his own dreams so there is no laziness or forcefulness towards the things. His present moments are filled with joy & these feelings attract more joy doing this for a long period he reaches his goals & finds true contentment.
