Engineering Inspirational Quotes

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. ~ Henry Petroski

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure. ~ Cecil Balmond

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. ~ Theodore Von Karman

Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without both apprehension and adventure; they were giants on the earth in those days. ~ J.E. Gordon

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them. ~ Michio Kaku

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. ~ Prakhar Srivastav

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. ~ L. Sprague De Camp

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday. ~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

Don't dwell on the PAST as it is a memory ... But dream for the Future as it is a hope ~ Blake Hahn

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion. She listens to conscience and not to power, and in this way she defends the poor and the downtrodden. ~ Pope John Paul II

The sky doesn't choose which stars shine it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded. ~ Steve Maraboli

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

How many people live in the moment? A few? How many people live for tomorrow at the sacrifice of today?" Dreyfus opened his fist to reveal it to be empty. " ... When tomorrow is never a guarantee. ~ Richard Doetsch

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. ~ Scott Adams

At the greatest levels of affluence, and the deepest levels of poverty, parents share the same desire for their children to have a better future. ~ Adam Braun

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are. ~ Stormie O'martian

We are not killing, we are saving.......a billion dreams. ~ Sumit Agarwal

I tell you this: You always get what you create, and you are always creating. I do not make a judgment about the creations that you conjure, I simply empower you to conjure more-and more and more and more. If you don't like what you've just created, choose again. My job, as God, is to always give you that opportunity. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

I don't do it for Michael. I do it for them."

"Them?"

"People."

"They're broken! Flawed!"

"Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive. ~ Gabriel And Lucifer

You can have your wishes but you must work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My final word: don't follow your dreams ... chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream! ~ Maureen Johnson

Every day gives us a new opportunity,
Don't waste it just Chase it. ~ Nikhita

A single moment of life has more miracles and worth than to live a whole life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Nothing is impossible for him who believes. ~ Anonymous

You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards. ~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

The more you will able to trust yourself, the more joy and peace you will able to experience. ~ Debasish Mridha

As long as you have at least one thing anchoring you, you can't get too lost. ~ Meghan March

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living. ~ Debasish Mridha

Never curse yourself by limiting your students. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject? ~ Slash Coleman

You gain strength with every difficulty, which you boldly overcome. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This transformation
begins in the spinning
of the soul,
hanged upside down,
massively re-arranged,
motion light.
By inch the radical
takes place
the old is decomposed,
the gruesome has been destroyed
melting into something
beautiful.

What has seemed to harm you
brought you to life.

- CHANGE, A Poem ~ Tara Estacaan

The New Testament does not need to be rewritten, but it needs to reread. ~ Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

Avoiding others because they don't suit my way of life is tragic. ~ Annabelle Sabella-Reza

You are valuable; but you are worth as much as you think and make yourself out to be. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Freedom is the breath of the soul ~ Dr. Dr. Mohammed Abad Al Razak

The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder. ~ Neal Shusterman