Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Every man is the son of his own works.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

I don't think I've worked with anyone where I haven't seen some progress. Now sometimes you can't take someone where they want to go, not all the way, and sometimes you stop, and they do it or don't do it on their own thereafter.

One creates oneself.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

It is only by giving people the tools to empower themselves will they be able to achieve their potential.

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.