Bell, Alexander Graham (Alexander Graham Bell)

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

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
-- Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes another door opens; but we so 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

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