Impossible Quotes

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

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Faith

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

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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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• You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Yoga, Cheer Up

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 18, 2014

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• The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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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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• Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Dare, Declaration

  Twitter post from May 04, 2015

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "Animated Architecture". Book by Derek Walker, 1982.

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• They did not know it was impossible so they did it

  Mark Twain

  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Knows

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• All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.131, Open Road Media

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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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• It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Suffering, Pay

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• The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

  Margaret Drabble

  Positive, Witty, Impossible Things

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

  Louise Brooks

  Real, Writing, Blow

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• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "Famous Sayings and their Authors" by Edward Latham, (p. 138), 1906.

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• No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

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• Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

  Muhammad Ali

  Athlete, Law Of Attraction, Impossible Things

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Basketball

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Positive, Failure

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• ...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Eric Butterworth

  Fear, Failure, Failing

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