Top 100 Things Are Impossible Quotes
#1. We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#2. We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.
Jim McKelvey
#3. No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#4. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
#5. Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible
Sunday Adelaja
#6. Lots of things are impossible. Doesn't mean they don't happen every day."
"Actually that is what impossible means. You should Google it," I suggested. "Wait, does Google qualify as an impossible thing?
Cecily White
#7. If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
#8. Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.
Gayle Forman
#9. Lots of things are impossible," she said softly. "Until they're not.
Jennifer Donnelly
#11. Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#12. We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible ... So we will do them anyway.
William Wilberforce
#13. Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#14. 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
#15. The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you ... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.
Annie Besant
#16. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.
LZ Granderson
#17. People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But
Rachel Cohn
#18. Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Winters
#19. Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'
Simon McBurney
#20. Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.
Elon Musk
#21. Dreams are what life is made of and although most things are improbable, nothing is impossible. Be the dreamer of the impossible and you can see probability.
Peace Gypsy
#22. The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.
Christopher Galvin
#23. Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.
Larry Page
#24. When we imagine future circumstances, we fill in details that won't really come to pass and leave out details that will. When we imagine future feelings, we find it impossible to ignore what we are feeling now and impossible to recognize how we will think about the things that happen later.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#25. Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
Elbert Hubbard
#26. But Jesus looked at them and said, With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible.
Mark 10 27
#27. I've appeared in those kind of films and have great fun doing it, and I'm always up for a challenge. I think with things like Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, those things are such an ensemble, it's not like I'm Ethan Hunt. I'm Benji. I'm the guy that does the computer business. I know my place.
Simon Pegg
#28. I guess it's easy to dream about things that are abstract, or impossible.
Melissa Keil
#29. There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#30. People are really willing to believe in impossible things, which is really beautiful.
Michael Carbonaro
#31. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.
Auberon Herbert
#32. Hard and impossible are two different things!
Eric Thomas
#33. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.
John Gerzema
#34. Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.
Tony Robbins
#35. There is much of our world, we do not see. So, it is easy to assume nothing exciting happens in our quadrant of space, but we are dead wrong. Crazy, impossible things occur all the time. We simply need to know where to look.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#36. To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
Sarah Paulson
#37. But it is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there. I am powerful in ways you can only dream, yet I am still a prisoner of what I have done. I can never escape the cell I have made for myself. Things are what they are.
Joe Abercrombie
#38. Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.
Richard Branson
#39. Why are mortals always so eager to declare things impossible, anyway? It's not like things do or don't exist just because you say so.
Rachel Aaron
#40. Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Pliny The Elder
#41. Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible!
Seth Adam Smith
#42. All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#43. With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.
Anonymous
#44. If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there.
Khalil Gibran
#45. Why is it that the people who are very good at answering difficult questions never get asked difficult questions, while people like me are always being forced to do things that are seemingly impossible?
Matthew Quick
#46. It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.
Liam O'Flaherty
#47. Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.
Richard Schmid
#48. Are there really people on this earth who deliberately set out to do evil things? Who say to themselves, I want to hurt people, to inflict all the pain I can, to make their lives impossible?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#49. I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.
Erin Bow
#50. I hope your molding skills are up to date. Because really, some things, when broken, are impossible to repair, never mind how much clay you put on it.
Elle Aycart
#51. All things are possible until they are proven impossible.
Pearl S. Buck
#52. Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.
Leo Strauss
#53. You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
Olga Kurylenko
#54. I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.
Lewis Carroll
#55. I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
Emile Verhaeren
#56. There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems impossible; how can a man who has known love be capable of doing such things? A man who loves his wife, who loves his children goes on eating meat? Impossible.
Rajneesh
#58. Simple acceptance Like waves belong on water We are as we are There is no need to be more than what is. In fact, that is impossible by definition. We can feel good about being part of the natural order of things and simply accept that we are worthy as we are.
Karl Grass
#59. Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we've given them permission to be impossible.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#60. We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.
Joyce Meyer
#61. and over our heads will float the bluebird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be. But before this comes to pass we must cultivate the lost art of lying
Oscar Wilde
#62. I don't know how people pray who don't believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they're possible I'll do them.
John Piper
#63. On the blank page all things are possible.
Marty Rubin
#64. Our faith must grow strong enough to believe for the impossible because we believe in the God of the impossible, and with Him all things are possible.
Stormie O'martian
#65. It is almost impossible to get anyone with a postmodern slant to say "I think" and stand by what follows, without making sure that the person listening understands, "Of course, there are other things to consider.
Gudjon Bergmann
#67. It requires writers to do two things that by their metabolism are impossible. They must relax, and they must have confidence.
William Zinsser
#68. Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done.
Tony Robbins
#69. There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said.
"So?"
"If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.
Megan Whalen Turner
#70. Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference.
Thom S. Rainer
#72. Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note
to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form - like maybe a
watch or necklace.)
Ally Carter
#73. [S]urrealism is my favorite fun thing. My feeling has always been why make something that merely replicates reality when you can have reality. My own interest lies in things that are impossible in some way.
Audrey Niffenegger
#74. Bad things are happening, Madame. Impossible things. I trained to be a soldier, to fight for my country and make my family proud. It was an honorable choice. What will be thought of us upon our return? What will be thought of me?
Kristin Hannah
#75. It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of ... It's essential that you ... [do] things you can respect and admire.
Ellen Bass
#76. To succeed in everything we do, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think are impossible.
Ellen J. Barrier
#78. If you don't cut off negative information it will depress you. Step out of the natural and say, This may be impossible with men, but I know with God all things are possible.
Joel Osteen
#79. Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them.
Lindsay Eagar
#80. One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
Claude Monet
#81. It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell either. Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but its too bad anyways.
J.D. Salinger
#82. When the odds seem insurmountable and it seems impossible to overcome them, most people will give up.The true heroes in this world are those who don't give up in these times when things seem impossible to do.
Dave Brown
#83. Things that are impossible usually take time.
Robert Reed
#84. No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. The most basic elements of our life - our birth and our death - are out of our control. People spend a lifetime trying to control these things but it's impossible.
Darien Gee
#86. And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
Martin Sheen
#87. It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#88. The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.
Joe Meno
#89. I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me.
Jennifer Lawrence
#90. Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.
Daniel Quinn
#91. The trick to doing things people say are impossible is confidence. As long as you seem to know what you're doing, and never hesitate, you're very unlikely to face any challenges. People don't like to break illusions, even when they don't know that's what they're looking at. - Kevin Price
Seanan McGuire
#92. The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
Karen Witemeyer
#93. When you are in love, you do all sorts of crazy, impossible things with and for the person you love.
M.F. Moonzajer
#94. Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.
Mark W. Boyer
#95. So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Norton Juster
#96. The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they're just determined to chase impossible things. And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can't even see what's right in front of them.
Morgan Matson
#97. There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Andre Gide
#98. I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
Annie Baker
#99. We make the things possible by thinking that they are possible; we make the things impossible by thinking that they are impossible! The way we think changes the road we travel!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Things that are impossible just take longer.
Ian Hickson
