5 Must-Read Life Lessons from Alexander Graham Bell

5 Must-Read Life Lessons from Alexander Graham Bell

Written by Mr.SelfDevelopment Published on November 22, 2010 - 8 Comments
Categories: self improvement

Alexander Graham Bell was a prominent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first “practical” telephone, although some believe he stole the idea from Elisha Gray.

Bell’s father, grandfather, and brother were all involved with work on speech and elocution, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell’s life’s work.

Bell’s research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices. These experimentations eventually resulted in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. Interestingly enough, Bell considered his invention an interference with his “real” work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.

Bell is also known for many other landmark inventions including his work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.

5 Must-Read Life Lessons from Alexander Graham Bell:

1. Development

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”

You are what you make of yourself!

This is why self-development is so important; you are “exactly” what you have spent your time developing into. You decide what you become. You can develop into success or failure. You can get better or worse, you decide. A man, or woman, is what they make of themselves.

2. Preparation

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

Les Brown said, “It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, then to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” Are you prepared to succeed? If the opportunity you’ve been waiting for suddenly appeared, would you be ready for it?

The first step to success is to be prepared.

3. Concentration

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

Alexander Graham Bell said, “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.” Are you concentrating? Are you focusing all of your power on the work at hand? You’ll never know your potential if you don’t focus your power.

4. Look for Open Doors

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”

Every time a door closes another one opens, look for the open doors, look for the opportunities that are in front of you.

Are you looking for opportunities? It’s hard to find an opportunity if you’re not looking for it. With every closed door there is a seed for something greater.

5. Steady Progress

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

Most people want overnight success, however, those who succeed, succeed as a result of many years of steady progress. Are you making progress? Are you closer to your goal this year in comparison to last year?

To succeed you have to make progress, you have to be consistent to win the race. As the quote goes, “The race is not given to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to the one who endures until the end.

QUIET QUOTE!!

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

I am so blessed.

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Good Morning!GrindTime!! Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Love ya! Make Moves ,Make Money,Make Progress!!! If you agree reply mmmp

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Good Morning !GrindTime!!
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that
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Good Morning!!!GrindTime!!!
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the
struggle against overwhelming odds. "

Good Morning!GrindTime!!!.To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and
the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good Morning! GrindtTime!!!
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be
perfect.
There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect
conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will
grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more
self-confident and more and more successful.

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Good Morning!Grindtime! "Limitation live only in our mind.But if we use our imaginations,our possibilities become limitless."
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Good Morning!Grindtime!
Today I will leave you with this quote from George Bernard Shaw.
"Some men see things as they are,and say,Why? I Dream of things that never were,and say, Why not? "

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