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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

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

Greatness Invention Man
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Burn Focus Hands Inspirational Sun
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Achievement Goal Inspirational Start
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Inspirational Life Love Regret
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Nature Path
Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Breathe Invention Thinking
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Oneself Technology
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Eyes Nature Path Travel
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

Born Inspirational Life Motivational
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

Mental Person Remember
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Ability Action Differences Failure Success
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Determination Existence Inspirational Motivational Perseverance
Observe, Remember, Compare.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

One Liner Remember
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Character Myself
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

End Men Result Success
First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

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