Impossible Things Quotes

• 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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• Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Done, Possibility

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

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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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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

  Christopher Reeve

  Positive, Inspiring, Graduation

  Christopher Reeve (1998). “Still Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Possible And Impossible, Waiting, Ignorant

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  I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

  Lewis Carroll

  Life, Change, Time

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 10 (1865)

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• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Perseverance, Motivation, Fear

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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, Possible And Impossible

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

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• Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Queens, Believe

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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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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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Life Lesson

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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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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• The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

  Douglas Adams

  Integrity, Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life And Love, Creativity, Possible And Impossible

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• When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

  Margaret Drabble

  Positive, Witty, Possible And Impossible

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• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Fables (Book VIII)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Possible And Impossible, Literature

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• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

  Walter Scott

  Courage, Possible And Impossible, Seems

  Walter Scott (2015). “Rob Roy”, p.428, Walter Scott

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  Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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