Top 35 Alexander Graham Bell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

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2. “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

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3. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

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4. “The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

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5. “With every door that closes a new one opens.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

6. “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

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

— Alexander Graham Bell

8. “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

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9. “Observe, Remember, Compare.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

10. “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

11. “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

12. “Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

13. “The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

14. “We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

15. “Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

16. “First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.””

— Alexander Graham Bell

17. “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.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

18. “One day every major city in America will have a telephone.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

19. “The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

20. “Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

21. “One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

22. “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.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

23. “I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!”

— Alexander Graham Bell

24. “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.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

25. “Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

26. “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.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

27. “The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

28. “I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...”

— Alexander Graham Bell

29. “God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

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30. “Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

31. “America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

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32. “Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

33. “Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

34. “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.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

35. “Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

36. “I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

37. “There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

38. “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.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

39. “Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.”

— Alexander Graham Bell