Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.

Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.

You go after your dreams no matter how many obstacles. You want to go forward. That's what I did.

I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something.

At Atletico, I always played with older players, sometimes out of position. I'd keep going back until I beat them.

The truth is, I almost always did accomplish what I said I would - in the face of overwhelming obstacles!

The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.

You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it.

I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.

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In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that's accomplishment.

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.