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 : Character
Concentrate all your thought upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell : Focus
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. - Alexander Graham Bell : Action
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. - Alexander Graham Bell : Ideas & Imagination
Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums. - Alexander Graham Bell : Determination, Persistence
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation. - Alexander Graham Bell : Success
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 : Focus
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell : Failure
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. - Alexander Graham Bell : Ideas & Imagination