Famous quotes containing the words foote macdougall, alice, foote and/or macdougall:
“... the big courageous acts of life are those one never hears of and only suspects from having been through like experience. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)
“Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They don’t realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a nice air-conditioned office.”
—Beatrice Alice Hicks (1919–1979)
“I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)
“Leave something on me! I might catch cold.”
—Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)