More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
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.
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.
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.
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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.
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
