Impossibility Quotes

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  There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.317, Univ of California Press

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• What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

  Theodore Roethke

  Inspirational, Faith, Teaching

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.93, Copper Canyon Press

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• Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Impossible Things, Done

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Greek, Coaching

  Poetics ch. 24, 1460a

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• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Faith

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• Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Yesterday, Accomplishment, Today

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

  Ray Bradbury

  Science, Impossible, Universe

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• People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Persistence

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• There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."

  Layne Beachley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

  Alexander the Great

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

  "Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties: A Book of Inspiration". Book by Orison Swett Marden (p. 55), 1896.

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• Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Attitude, Wish, Happens

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.17, Xist Publishing

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• One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

  Democritus

  Wise, Men, Differences

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• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

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• God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

  Janos Arany

  Love, Motivational, Positive

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Source" by James Wood, (p. 11), 1893.

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• Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Possibility, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

  Nicholas Winton

  Optimistic, Way, Impossible

  "Saving the Children" with Bob Simon, www.cbsnews.com. September 7, 2014.

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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• Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Thinking, Criminal Mind

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• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 17,

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• Never let me hear that foolish word again.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Jargon, Foolish, Let Me

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• Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

  Loren Eiseley

  Born, Destined, Millions

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.37, Library of America

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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