Quotes from Alexander Graham Bell
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
- Alexander Graham Bell
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
- Alexander Graham Bell
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
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
- Alexander Graham Bell
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
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
- 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.
- Alexander Graham Bell
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
- Alexander Graham Bell
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
- Alexander Graham Bell