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Impossible Quotes


Impossible quotes take a word that sounds limiting and turns into a word full of possibilities. Consider SARK’s suggestion to plant ‘IMpossible gardens’. Consider this: what would you try if you knew it would be impossible to fail?

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True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.
Teresa Amabile

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorothea Brande

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.
Deepak Chopra

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
Nancy Coey

Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.
Dalai Lama

Dream the impossible dream.
Joe Darion

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de la Fontaine

It is kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
Amelia Earhart

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
M. C. Escher

How often—even before we began—have we declared a task ‘impossible’? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.
Piero Ferrucci

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Frank Gaines

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard

Never tell anyone that something can’t be done. God may have waited centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
J.R. Holmes

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or 'consciously' desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison S. Marden

Life is easier to take than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself…nothing is impossible!
Norman Vincent Peale

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper

Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis of Assisi

Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moon baths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
SARK

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Robert H. Schuller

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate.
John Steinbeck

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother Teresa

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy

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

Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
Paramahansa Yogananda



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