Impossible Quotes - Page 29

• Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Enemy, Moral, Quiet

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• Believe in the impossible, for then you will find it possible.

  Rodney Collin

  Life, Believe

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• For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Success, Fighting

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Helping, Happy Day, Knows

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Heart, Men

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• It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.

  Yuri Averbakh

  Struggle, Psychology, Important

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• You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Beautiful, Way

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• We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

  Harvey Mackay

  Children, Fun, Discovery

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• Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.

  Ben Cohen

  Powerful, Business, Practice

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• ...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Believe, Greatness

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• He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Healing, Goal

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• It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

  Harry Bates Thayer

  Leadership, People, Fool

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• It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

  John Templeton

  Leadership, Different, Engagement

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• When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance!

  George Wald

  Believe, Philosophical, Origin Of Life

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• There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Fundamentals, Values

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• The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge it was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually rose from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Jesus, Personal Knowledge, Rose

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• Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

  Eric Butterworth

  Strong, Average, Achievement

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• ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS.

  Robert Cheeke

  Bodybuilding, Goal, Proud

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• The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

  Montserrat Caballe

  Giving, Moments, Reason

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• Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

  A. H. Weiler

  Men, Sloth, Laziness

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• Go ahead, do something impossible.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness

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• Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Self, Redemption, Poet

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• As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Rhyming, Poet

  'La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu' (1935; translated as 'Tiger at the Gates' by Christopher Fry, 1955) act 1

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• It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

  Ruth Harrison

  Animal, Equality, Men

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• People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Thinking, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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