Alexander Graham Bell

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth.

The man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

The greatest discovery of my life was the discovery of the value of hard work.

I have never been accused of plagiarism, but I have been accused of being a plagiarist.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to put off until tomorrow the things that we ought to do today.

The only difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The telephone will be in every city, town, and village in the United States.

The most important thing for a man to do is to be true to himself.

I have always been a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

The telephone is a wonderful instrument, but it is not a perfect one.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and inspire them to be what they always wanted to be.

The telephone is a great invention, but it is not for everyone.

The true inventor is not the one who first conceives an idea, but the one who brings it to fruition.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

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

Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.

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. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before.

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.

The deaf should not intermarry.