The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
—Alexander Graham Bell
Topics: Goals
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
—Alexander Graham Bell
Topics: Desire, Animals
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
—Alexander Graham Bell
Topics: Science, Discovery
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.
—Alexander Graham Bell
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
Topics: Greatness, Responsibility, Strength
Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
—Alexander Graham Bell
Topics: Communication
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
—Alexander Graham Bell
Topics: Work, Action
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
Topics: Power, Persistence, Determination, Goals
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