Alexander Graham Bell Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von 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.

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

Alexander Graham Bell

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

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

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Alexander Graham Bell

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 the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

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

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

Alexander Graham Bell

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

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 which has opened for us.

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

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.

Alexander Graham Bell

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Alexander Graham Bell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there.

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

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Alexander Graham Bell