First words on the first telephone–’Mr. Watson–come here–I want to see you. — Alexander Graham Bell

There are two critical points in every aerial flight–its beginning and its end. — 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

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

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

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought. — 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

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

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. — Alexander Graham Bell

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed. — Alexander Graham Bell

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands. — Alexander Graham Bell

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic… — Alexander Graham Bell

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely. — 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 that has opened for us. — Alexander Graham Bell

It is the man who carefully advances step by step…who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. — Alexander Graham Bell

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Graham Bell

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

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

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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent. — Alexander Graham Bell

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. — Alexander Graham Bell

Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. — Alexander Graham Bell

With every door that closes a new one opens. — Alexander Graham Bell

Mr. Watson–Come here–I want to see you. [First intelligible words spoken over the telephone] — Alexander Graham Bell

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation. — Alexander Graham Bell

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

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he saw a missed call from Jeff Dean. — Laszlo Bock

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. — 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

Observe, Remember, Compare. — 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

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument. — Alexander Graham Bell

One day every major city in America will have a telephone. — 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

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. — Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus — Alexander Graham Bell

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

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. — Alexander Graham Bell

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

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

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. — Alexander Graham Bell