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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

  Ray Bradbury

  Science, Impossible, Universe

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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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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Philosophy, Failure

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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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• Impossibility is a dictionary word.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Dictionary

  "They're Not Heavy; They're His People; 72-Year-Old Sri Chinmoy Offers An Uplift Beyond the Spiritual" by Corey Kilgannon, www.nytimes.com. July 1, 2004.

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• The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Existence, Prove

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• The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Change, Deep Thought

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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• It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman explains eloquently in her masterwork Trauma and Recovery, “neutrality” actually serves the interests of the perpetrator much more than those of the victim and so is not neutral. Although an abuser prefers to have you wholeheartedly on his side, he will settle contentedly for your decision to take a middle stance. To him, that means you see the couple's problems as partly her fault and partly his fault, which means it isn't abuse.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Couple, Women, Mean

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.287, Penguin

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• To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
  [Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile
  Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]

  Plautus

  Blow, Ego, Easy

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• To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

  William Cobbett

  Wisdom, Independent, Independence

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.47

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• The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

  James Wolfe

  Friends, Country, Believe

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