“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 put upon them.”
- “Concrete all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not bum until brought to focus.”
- “When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
- “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 credit is due to others rather than to myself.”
- “Educate the messes, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.”
- “The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.”
- “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and become 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.”
- “The achievement of one goal should be starting point of another goal.”
- “Before anything else preparation is the key to success.”
- “Night is more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”
– Alexander Graham Bell