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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. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Leaving Time
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
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Night Quiet
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

Greatness Skill Technology
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Beginning End Technology Travel
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Preparation Success
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
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
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Oneself Technology
When one door closes, another one opens.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Inspirational One Liner Oneself
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Control Nation World
First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

See Technology Yourself
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
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
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