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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Impossible.
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
Related topics: Motivational Positive
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
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
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
- Mother Teresa
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading.
I will rather say more necessary
because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil.
But no matter how necessary,
it is always an evil, never a good.
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today
should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose
to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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