Alexander Graham Bell quotes
Born
March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Died
August 2, 1922.
Occupation
Scientist, inventor, engineer.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist. He is credited with inventing the first practical telephone, and his contributions to the development of the telephone and to the understanding of the nature of sound and hearing had a profound impact on the world.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
– Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
– Alexander Graham Bell
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
– Alexander Graham Bell
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
– Alexander Graham Bell
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
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
– Alexander Graham Bell
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
– Alexander Graham Bell
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
– Alexander Graham Bell
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
– Alexander Graham Bell
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
– Alexander Graham Bell
What this power is, I cannot say… All I know is that it exists.
– 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
A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
– Alexander Graham Bell
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
– Alexander Graham Bell
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
– Alexander Graham Bell