Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

So little done, so much to do.

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 - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. The first understandable words transmitted over a telephone.

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.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation 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.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

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.