Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”
Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.”
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It give us a lesson so please learn from ur mistakes
It’s really a wonderful comment
We are all fallible and everybody in this world has got right to make mistakes and everybody does that but what is important in life is that we should learn from our mistakes.. The one who does not learn aything from one’s past mistakes is unlikely to succed life…..
Good thoughts
lead a good life
No one in the world get succeed in the first attempt. Those who learn things from mistakes can only lead to success.
The above message ‘Learn from mistakes’ is fabulous. Yes everyone has to learn from mistakes, she/he should not make the same mistake. Made mistakes make us learn new inventions/thoughts.
It’s good to learn from our mistakes but I think it’s also a good way to see the good side of everything.
To Attain the Success is not an easy one.. We have to face many difficulties..
Not realising the mistake is a mistake, but making the mistake is not a mistake. Mistakes can make us to learn us many things.
It is a really good comment.
It’s ok to make a mistake, just don’t repeat THE SAME mistake.
Ya! Realy its so nice. and we also try to think positive only.
Yes it’s wonderful.
Really its very fantastic. N0 pain no gain. Idea wont work unless and until u work on idea.
Great. When mistakes happen they are painful but years later colection of mistakes are leads to success called experience.
Great ! Got to learn and adapt in life …
mistakes are a part of experience which are great building blocks of life.
Here thinking between two persons one is positive and the other one in negative, failure and mistakes are common but one should come in such a way to hope for the best from the result and can do it in a better way.
Everyone is not achieved success in first attempt. So never give up if u failed. Try 2 find the reason of failure. I hope u will be succeed in next attempt.
Mistakes make one perfect.
That’s the positive attitude. We try to do mistake so we come to learn our mistakes and we will try to improve our task.
Mistake is the initial step towards success.
We all know that our failures are stepping stones for our success.
Nothing is impossible. It’s nice.
its very good, definitely we should not give up
Very good comment and very well said by THOMAS ELVA EDISON. WE should always try to learn from our mistakes and we should never get disheartened by the failure of our mistakes
first to correct the mistakes
second not to repeat the mistakes
i remind the words of Abdul kalam sir:
Good decision comes from experience
Experience comes from bad decision
mistakes make one perfect.
First we should try. If we don’t succeed , we should find out the reason behind our failure. Then avoid the previous mistakes. This way when we keep on trying, we can at a point of time do that work perfectly without any mistakes.
Tha’s what you call… Optimism! =)
So nice example ..
one who says I did mistake is not a negative thinker, one who didn’t agree his/her mistake is negative thinker.
Thank you
Every mistake, however small it may be, is a lesson by itself….
life fault and trials must be look in positive ways… it will make us strong and thinks more broader
awesome….
This is what called POSITIVE THINKING
Always think positive. Positive thinking brings happiness in our life.
Mistakes are Educational.
Hard work never goes unreward, try until the end.
Very nice so I used it for me speech!!!
Best methodology to think + from our losses………..
Great person.. he inspired me…
Learn from Mistakes
He provided me hope……………………thanks
Try Try Try until we tired…
Let love the work what we do and do it “The best”
Never get Failed……..
Practice makes success
These types of motivational stories are helpful when people get frustrated. We shoud learn from our mistakes. There is no person who have become successful without doing any mistakes. So, Never give up n try try until u get success.
Hello Friends!
I hope every body agrees that this is 100% true in our lives. Thomas Edison Really did great job.
Extracting bits of lessons from events, failure or success makes us grate. Thanks for sharing the lesson.
Mistakes give more confident about the success so recognize your mistakes and don’t do the mistakes again and again
There’s nothing wrong in making a mistake but we have to correct ourselves after that.
Wonderful
learning depends on your attitude towards the situation…One should think about the problems..but shuold always think towards the solution…
Wonderful explanation
That’s the confidence…
The person who do mistake is human that is the diffrence btwn us and god
Learn from this , about positive thinking ……….
it is teach us that learning attitude .
Excellent story..Be positive…..We should always be positive…the more do the mistakes the more we learn…
Learn from the mistakes of others… there is no time in life to actually commit yours…
Try and try until we succeed.
Nothing is impossible. I have learned that it is important to a strong belief in what we do which results in fruitfulness.
We should never give up on attempting things which we are afraid to do! coz no one in this world born to be perfect… The more failures, the more lessons we learn… That’s life — it makes us more eager to pursue to be right. POSITIVE THOUGHT is the best a person should have! =)
Think different do different
If we make mistakes, it is not bad but if we repeat those mistakes again & again its very bad
No mistakes, no progress.
Such a nice saying 4m edison
It is really super. Learn from your mistakes…
Nice story. We can be wrong sometime so we should learn from our mistakes…
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Mistakes, a part of our life. Try to forgive those who have done mistakes, but learn from those mistakes.
Very impressive and everyone should know this: TRY TRY TRY until you get success but never commit the same mistake, no problem if we don’t succeed at last we end up with a TRIAL…!!!
Superb
Oh wonderful!
Wonderful
Don’t loose our confidence at any point of time…
Our attempts never fail…….
A person who quits never wins and the one who wins never quits!!! A bitter truth of the world.
Learn from mistakes and do not do it again.
It is called positive thinking.
Really GREAT, though small story but conveys a strong and positive message. To err is human, but to learn from that mistake requires a lot of courage ………..
AS LEARNING IS AN INTERACTIVE PROCESS ……..
Dr. Vijay Vyas (Ph.d -HR )
Brilliant explanation
Great thought by great mind.
Really nice story forever……………
Mistake once is good but same mistake reapeated again is foolishness.
Really very nice…
This is a good msg to all of us.
Good
It’s a very motivational story so we follow the path and make our life successful………
Even though those have been happening in my life for one decade I have been receiving happily so far. Now I go with Thomas path.
It is very important in our day-to-day life. Mistakes make us learn new things.
All of us encounter mistakes in life. From it we become strong and better person because we learn, and struggle not to do it again…
A man is known for his “character” not when he makes mistakes but when he “realizes” his mistakes.
Mistakes make us to know life better than we know before.
Positive thinking helps to taste the oasis in the mid desert.
It is very nice.
Mistakes are important lesson in our life. One should have patience and tolerances to keep on trying despite failing several times in life……
We all make mistakes no one is perfect its unavoidable, but as much as possible if we make mistakes try to learn everyone has the right to do that instead of having them as a burden to you learn from them, and move forward and see how much you improved from the lessons you learned from your mistakes.
just impossible is impossible!!!!!!
No one called it is a mistake even it’s 2000 tries which he took to identify whether these materials can work or not.
It is also the part of experiment which he did and which conclude that in future these are the wasteful resources.
Mistake is the great Teacher, if we learn from our mistakes.
Awesome !!
We can learn many things from our mistakes…… Mistake is our teacher….
It is the steeping stone for our success.
I like this thing very interesting
The way how you recieve or accept is more important than thinking negatively.
Excellent…
I got the moral from this message is first to improve our self confidence towards the success…. that gives mistakes makes man perfect. Thank You.
Wonderful!!! It helps a lot.
It’s wonderful making mistakes, become a good master.
Try! try! Try! You will achieve what you want. From this story I have learnt to be positive and learned from our failures.
Oh it’s good to learn from your mistakes so u may not commit them again.
Learn from the great inventor to never lose hope.
This shows no gain without pain. TRY NOT TO LOSE YOUR HOPE. TRY.
From mistakes, we learn that so may value things which we are not aware of….an eye openers…….
Never lose hope.
I am deeply touched and encouraged.
Really very inspiring… & it gives an unparalleled desire to win despite several failure in life as a whole…
Really GREAT, though small story but conveys a strong and positive message. To err is human, but to learn from that mistake requires a lot of courage ………..
This is what we call POSITIVE THINKING. Awesome…superb… practice makes man perfect….
I love my school teacher, Mr. Mistake.
I’m tired of making mistakes and now I realise there maybe still time left to make things work. There will be a time in your life if you’re lucky to learn from the past and to change, to do things right and if it’s something you want to achieve, whatever it is…it will be so.
I love it. Inspiring.
Thomas replied very confiediently and that worker didn’t know anything…
We can make mistakes in anything but mistakes can make us to achieve in easy way in short time….it means to make success… it’ll inspire to the world.
We should always know that mistakes have potential in them that make us learn.
Wow nice
Goal is born from your imagination… journey towards it is your job…..
It’s impressive, because we did anything that is simple or comples that helps to know something.
“something is better than nothing”
I love it and I am getting knowledge from this website
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Life isn’t easy like that, so try and try. Be patient.
To have ‘cake’ from ‘mistake’ is something really great… hats off to this site..
I am very fond of this site..
Great morals! I have learnt much more things through these morals ….
But please keep it up I have read all the morals. I think that all these morals are almost about “mistake” so please write something about other life matter.
Thank you.
Do good have good
Cut your coat according to your length.
Don’t cross your limits.
We should learn from our mistakes. I learned to put every thing in order.
I do love mistakes, at least I know I will never repeat them. With every mistake, you experience new thing. I believe mistake is beautiful special, when a scientist makes a mistake, he invents new things.
Thanks a million, the smallest work that I can do is to express my feeling about this site.
Whenever we make mistake we’ll learn new things. It helps to improve your knowledge. Mistakes always teach you new lessons.
So make mistakes and learn more.
It’s wonderful, I love all the stories, please let me repost it on my Fb, thanks a lot
Great thinking…
Very Nice thought, those who learn from others mistake are far better than those who learn from his/her mistake. Never loose your confidence in adverse condition, because this thing make you stronger and stronger.
Super
That means he did not discover the light bulb he jst wanted to discover which elements should not be used for light bulb.
Yes, it is very important to learn from your mistakes. It happened to me, I was making the same mistake again and again and always got frustrated after committing that. My life became very miserable and for all that vulnerability, I was solely responsible.
But one day I got to realize that making this mistake will lead me to nowhere but to hell and committed myself not to repeat it again… and honestly I got rid of my problem.
This blog is very useful tool to learn life living style. Thanks.
Nice story, really I always believe in hard work.
Love your stories … I am not a story person but I love these
Mistake which means take the missed things to apply them in future to prevent the same
It is the best for progress.
Hmmn really good story.
Only some of the people can accept things like him…….
Very true…
Try to fail but don’t try to fail. It’s a great story.
He is an idol for youths to achieve something in their life. Impressible story…..
Really this is a wonderful example.. good tp read this.. we learn many things from the mistakes. Make the mistakes, but don’t do the same mistakes in life..
It’s changed the lives of me and my friends
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Believe in your self! Be responsible!
It’s a really impressive story…… so always do the mistakes to learn the new things…if u do the mistake, some time u got a new idea.
All stories are good with a moral and touching the core of the heart.
Intelligent people learn from others mistakes.
Learning process will lead us through right and wrong way. Getting wrong is discovering.