Possible And Impossible Quotes - Page 2

• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Perfection, Achieving The Impossible

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Positive Thinking, People, Ordinary And Extraordinary

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• One can't believe impossible things.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Math, Impossible Things

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

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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, Impossible Things

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Littles, Achieving The Impossible, Difficult

  Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

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• Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every noble work is at first impossible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Positive, Stay Strong, Inspirational Life

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

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

  Douglas Adams

  Integrity, Impossible Things, Achieving The Impossible

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

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Awe And Wonder

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

  Wernher von Braun

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "At My Best: 365 Meditations For The Physical, Spiritual, And Emotional Well-Being". Book by Anonymous (p. 284), October 14, 2009.

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• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Past, Men, Variation

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Perfection, Achieving The Impossible

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

  Elizabeth Arden

  People, Want, Achieving The Impossible

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• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  Teresa of Avila

  Power, Catholic, Achieving The Impossible

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.29, TAN Books

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Impossible Things, Literature

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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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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• What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Achieving The Impossible

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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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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• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "Famous Sayings and their Authors" by Edward Latham, (p. 138), 1906.

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• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Ambition, Men

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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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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