Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

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.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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.

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

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.