Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
20 quotes from Alexander Graham Bell — Inventor of the telephone and co-founder of AT&T..
“You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.”
“A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.”
“With every door that closes a new one opens.”
“What this power is, I cannot say… All I know is that it exists.”
“I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life.”
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.”
“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”
“I may perhaps take credit for having blazed a trail for others who came after me, but when I look at the phenomenal developments of the telephone and at the great system that bears my name, I feel that the credit for these developments is due to others rather than myself.”
“Though I cannot claim to be a Canadian, except that I have a warm spot in my heart for Canada, I do want Canada to have the benefit of these Canadian boys.”
“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.”
“I have my periods of restlessness, when my brain is crowded with ideas tingling to my fingertips, when I am excited and cannot stop for anybody. Let me alone. Let me work as I like, even if I have to sit up all night or even for two nights.”
“It is to-night my pleasure, as well as duty, to give you some account of the telephonic researches in which I have been so long engaged. Many years ago my attention was directed to the mechanism of speech by my father, Alexander Melville Bell, of Edinburgh, who has made a life-long study of the subject.”
“The greatest invention I have ever made; greater than the telephone.”
“It would take me a week to get to you this time.”
“The day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water or gas — and friends will converse with each other without leaving home.”
