Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
Businessperson
Electrical Engineer
Engineer
Inventor
Physicist
Professor
Scientist
Edinburgh
Scotland
Bell
Graham Bell
Alexander Bell
Love
Often
Doors
Opened
Life
Inspirational
Motivational
Closed
Regretfully
Another
College
Perseverance
Regretful
Change
Happiness
Healing
Closes
Women
Upon
Motivation
Breakup
Look
Success
Regret
Seekers
Looks
Opportunity
Door
Encouraging
Long
History
Positive
Opens

More quotes by Alexander Graham Bell

Image
Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
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
Image
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
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
Image
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
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
Image
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
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
Image
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
When one door closes, another one opens.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Alexander Graham Bell
Image
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
Image
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