Impossible Things Quotes

• One can't believe impossible things.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Math, Possible And Impossible

  1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 5,'Wool and Water'.

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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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• 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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• 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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• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

  Lewis Mumford

  Positive, Science, Technology

  "Technics and Civilization". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 8, section 13, 1934.

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• With God, all things are possible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.50, Hay House, Inc

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• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.342

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• A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

  Seth Godin

  Possible And Impossible, Practice, Mind

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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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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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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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• 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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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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• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Life Lesson

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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