More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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.
Observe, Remember, Compare.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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.
When one door closes, another one opens.
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
