“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
“Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.”
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"One day every major city in America will have a telephone."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
"Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions."
— Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)