Thursday, September 22, 2011

Quotes on IMPOSSIBLE


We use the word “impossible” very often. We do not give much thought to it before using it. Whenever we use it we limit ourselves and our potentials. Here are some of good quotes to think about and remember….

N.Ganeshan

Quotes on IMPOSSIBLE

It is not a lucky word, this name 'impossible'; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths."

- Thomas Carlyle

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The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious." - Samuel Johnson

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet."

- Carl Lewis -----

We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- William Shakespeare

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Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS,
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS,
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS,
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me—
Anything can happen, child
ANYTHING can be.

- Shel Silverstein

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Our aspirations are our possibilities."

- Robert Browning

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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 upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?"

- Pliny the Elder

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"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke's Second Law

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It is our duty as human beings to proceed as though the limits of our capabilities do not exist."

- Teilhard de Chardin

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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."

- Giorgio de Chirico

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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 younger, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

- Alice in Wonderland

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"Things are only impossible until they're not."

- Jean-Luc Picard

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"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?"

- Richard Bach

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Despise no man and consider nothing impossible,
for there is no man who does not have his hour
and there is no thing that does not have its place."

- The Talmud

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"When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible."

- Bruce Lee

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