More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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.
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.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
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.
