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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

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Nature Path
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.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Believe Leaving Life Yourself
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!
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

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

End Men Result Success
It is the man who carefully advances step by step, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Men Success
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

Force Ideas Perfection Successful
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
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
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

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

Greatness Invention Man
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Opportunity Positive See
First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

See Technology Yourself
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Control Nation World
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Achievement Goal Inspirational Start
What this power is, I cannot say All I know is that it exists.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Determination Existence Positive Spiritual
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