50 Inspirational Construction Quotes to Build Your Passion and Vision

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."

- David Allan Coe

"We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us."

- Winston Churchill

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

- Charles Dickens

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

- Criss Jami

"You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it requires people to make the dream a reality."

- Walt Disney

"You can use an eraser on the drafting table, or a sledgehammer on the construction site."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"When we build, let us think that we build forever."

- John Ruskin

"Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design."

- Stephen Gardiner

"Building is about getting around the obstacles that are presented to you."

- Jeremy Renner

"You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."

- David Allan Coe

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"It is not the beauty of the building you should look at: it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."

- David Allen Coe

"I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds."

- Jiminez Lai

"A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured."

- Louis Kahn

"Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves."

- Adrienne Clarkson

"A world which sees art and engineering as divided is not seeing the world as a whole."

- Professor Sir Edmund Happold

"Use the best possible materials, and reveal the quality of those materials and the craftsmanship of their assembly."

- Karl Friedrich Schinkel

"Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things."

- Peter Zumthor

"I call architecture frozen music."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

- Frank Gehry

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

- John Ruskin

"I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success."

- Wilbur Wright

"The door handle is the handshake of the building."

- Juhani Pallasmaa

"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."

- Billy Graham

"The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building."

- Louis Kahn

"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."

- Douglas Coupland

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

- Leo Aikman

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them."

- Federico Garcia Lorca

"If you build it, they will come."

"Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people."