More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take 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.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.