Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

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

Character Myself
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
Observe, Remember, Compare.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

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

End Men Result Success
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
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Ability Action Differences Failure Success
First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

See Technology Yourself
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Discovery Greatness Improvement Mindset
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
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

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

Greatness Invention Man
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Funny People 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
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Oneself Technology
When one door closes, another one opens.
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Inspirational One Liner Oneself
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
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
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Control Nation World
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

Men Person Talk Technology
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Beginning End Technology Travel
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Nature Path

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