Alexander Graham Bell Inspirational Quotations

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

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.

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, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

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