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Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist and inventor who is best known for his invention of the first practical telephone. He was a prolific inventor in multiple fields, most notably credited with inventing the world’s first gas-powered vehicle.
He was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. His mother died while giving birth to him, and his father gave up on Alexander’s education because of lack of time, sending him home to live with relatives.
Alexander Graham Bell started to learn about science from his uncle, David Charles La Trobe Thomson. When he moved back into his father’s home when he was 16, he continued lessons from Thomson and showed an interest in English literature and Latin poetry.
He is considered one of the most famous scientists in history. He revolutionized the field of communications with his invention, the telephone.
Here are his most inspiring quotes that will motivate you to achieve your goals, dreams, and life.
43 Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
“There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.”
“Before anything else preparation is the key to success.”
“You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth.”
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
“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.”
“The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.”
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to focus.”
“After innumerable failures I finally uncovered the principle for which I was searching, and I was astounded at its simplicity.”
“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.”
“Concentrate all of your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
“The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.”
“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.”
“It is the man who carefully advances step by step…who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”
“God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.”
“Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.”
“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.”
“Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”
“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.”
“Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.”
“I have always considered myself as an Agnostic…”
“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus”
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.”
“There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.”
“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.”
“A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.”
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.”
“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.”
“The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.”
“With every door that closes a new one opens.”
“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.”
“A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.”
“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
“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.”
“What this power is, I cannot say… All I know is that it exists.”
“The most successful men, in the end, are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
“The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.”
“If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.”
“Observe, Remember, Compare.”
“I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science.”
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”
