115 result(s) for Alexander Graham Bell Quotes.
"The most successful men are those who serve their apprenticeships quite faithfully."
"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."
"The fundamental factor in the progress of civilization is the improvement of communication."
"I am not interested in the past, but in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life."
"There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined by their compatriots."
"The most important thing is to work for the right reason, to make a difference, and to be the best you can be."
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only consequences are those we can see."
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"It is much easier to throw love than to receive it."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat."
"The day will come when mankind will look back upon this age and will marvel at the silly superstitions of the world today."
"One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of the universe."
"A scientist, looking at science, sees boys as the light of his own life."
"The trouble is that we do not see an occasion as it is, but see it as we want it to be."
"Nature is a great teacher of the individuality of particular men."
"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."
"The things we cannot change, we must learn to take gracefully."
"Is it not a wonderful thing that we are able to arrive at conclusions concerning the behavior of gases and liquids?"
"The only important thing about technology is how it changes people."
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"You cannot think of anything that does not have a place in the world of science."
"One day, I hope, we will be able to explain how life works in the simplest of language."
"What we do now, we do for the future."
"Men may come and men may go, but an evangelist will go on forever."
"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it."
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
"It is the man who can think, and who is really interested in what he is doing that will win at the end."
"Whenever you are about to do something, ask yourself: 'Would an idiot do that?' If the answer is yes, then don't do that thing."
"Nature is a marvelous and gentle teacher; it is in the green pastures and the still waters that we learn to think and to meditate."
"We are all too much inclined to think that the things we hear often are not worth listening to."
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
"Leave the past behind, but do not forget the lessons you have learned from it."
"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."
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"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"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 been opened for us."
"Science is a report of how things are, and a prediction of how they will be."
"The future is not a gift; it is an achievement."
"Every time I state a fact, I am not going to high ground, I am going to lower ground."
"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there is no such thing as perfect."
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady, everyday planning and campaigning."
"Science is wonderfully simple and complex at the same time; it penetrates into the inner life of things."
"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"
"The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking."
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
"There is no greater service which a man can do than to explore new things and bring forth new ideas."
"I cannot imagine a God who would want to be praised all the time."
"A man may make a remarkable contribution to science without having been a scientist."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
"The only difference between succeeding and failing is the ability to take action."
"Our idea is one of the simplest, every man should be allowed to own all knowledge but no one should own the machinery through which it is spread."
"Invention is the mother of necessity."
"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 one which has been opened for us."
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your behavior."
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
"You cannot make a product without mastering the process."
"The invention of the telephone introduced a new form of communication which has transformed the world."
"To those who can see, this world is a world full of excitement and adventure."
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate."
"Every success is based on the ability to do better than good enough."
"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
"If we are to be successful in our endeavors in life, we must put in the effort and not wait for opportunity to knock."
"The things we think about determine the quality of our thoughts."
"You cannot separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
"What we call genius is the ability to raise one’s self to a higher level of thought and expression."
"The advance of civilization is nothing but the advance of the science of communication."
"The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the person to whom he is speaking."
"Science knows no country, because it is the light that engenders civilization."
"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
"To help each other to rise, therefore, is a sacred obligation."
"Never let your fears overshadow your dreams."
"The most beautiful and profound way to change ourselves is to accept ourselves completely as imperfect beings."
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
"Every hour spent in my profession brings me a little bit nearer to success."
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every human being to be active."
"Sometimes we may ask ourselves what really is the purpose of our lives, and it is that which we strive to pursue."
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
"There is no reason why the son of a man should not be as proud of his father as the father is of his son."
"We can not all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed."
"Every successful invention is a result of new thought and action."
"The mind is like a flower. It does not bloom without nurturing."
"Eliminate excuses and you will eliminate failure."
"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 ones which open for us."
"Wonders happen not always at once, but now and then a little at a time."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"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."
"If one great power should be able to transform their language of a thousand tongues into a universal language, the world could be brought together."
"The invention of the telephone was not an accident, but the result of a deep thinking and careful design."
"You can never be inspired by someone else’s ideas without first being inspired by your own."
"An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing."
"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds."
"Move away from the crowd when you feel you are not getting the attention you need."
"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
"The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
"We are all the aborigines of a different culture that has been carried forward into the future by our ancestors."
"A man’s mind, stretched by new experiences, can never go back to its old dimensions."
"The best safeguard any person can have is a stubborn persistence."
"The point of doing things well is not just for oneself; it is to inspire others."
"Sometimes we must leave our homes in order to find ourselves."
"What we think, we become."
"You cannot elevate the weak by pulling down the strong."
"To be a great scientist, you have to be a bit of an artist."
"A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a great deal of work to be done before it is possible to copy the discovered."
"Sound is the universal language, it connects, it relates, it expresses."
"Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before."
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