Inspirational Mechanical Engineering Quotes

As an engineer, you need to face many things, challenges and need more productive and creative on your job, on workplace, shop floor in a company or in your life. You need some motivation and inspiration to make your work and life more inspired.

Here are some of the best and most inspiring quotes about mechanical engineering are as follows,

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

– Bill Nye

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering as well as final assembly.

– James Dyson

A mechanical engineer is able to do everything.

– Wouter Van Den Bosch

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

– Friedrich Schiller

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down.

– Garrison Wynn

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.

– John Stuart Mill

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

– Elizabeth Bowen

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading ‘The Mysterious Island’ – which I read 25 times as a boy – I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

– Dan Shechtman

I actually studied engineering in school – I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

– Mark Frauenfelder

For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

– Kristan Higgins

I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.

– Dziga Vertov

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

– Garrett Hardin

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

– Bruce Lee

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

– Benjamin Franklin

It is not worth my while to manufacture in three countries only; but I can find it very worthwhile to make it for the whole world.

– James Watt

The first steps in the path of discover, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

– Charles Babbage

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena; it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

– Nikola Tesla

A man with the power of will could make himself anything he wished no matter what the circumstances.

– Willis Carrier

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

– Steve Jobs

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

– Bill Cosby

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

– Henry David Thoreu

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

– Mahatma Gandhi

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

– Guy Martin

I guess bowling is pretty mechanical. It’s kind of a natural motion, but you have to stick within those mechanics.

– Mookie Betts

I’m crazy about cars, about boats, about airplanes, about anything mechanical – I’m just a boy, really, and my clients are like boys, too.

– Richard Mille