Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

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.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

When one door closes, another one opens.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

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.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

With every door that closes a new one opens.

One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

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.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to se