83 Impossible Quotes That'll Convince You Anything Is Doable

Impossible

We'll start with a cliché, forgive us; nothing is impossible because the word itself says I'm possible. That's a common phrase but a true one that we like to brush off, especially when faced with huge mountains.

These huge mountains that life tends to create before you are inevitable. Everyone's life has mountains. Even when you think others have it easier than you, they have challenges that they, too, face.

Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they are not there. Some people know how to navigate their mountains quietly. Instead of telling everyone what they are going through, they face it.

They believe in less talk, more action. And you should too. Rather than whining about how your mountains are hard for you to climb, why not do things differently?

Change tact and view that mountain from another perspective. It does look impossible to climb, but what if you went up step by step? Taking things bit by bit makes them feel smaller no matter how big they actually are.

Start by doing what seems possible for you. Take it one day at a time. Don't think about the result. Think only about the task at hand.

Looking at things as a whole makes them seem more unattainable. Focus on the step you are on and move on to the next one when you complete it. Gradually, you will be able to conquer something you initially thought was unbeatable.

It always seems impossible until it's done. And another way to look at it is the way Charles Kettering put it. He said, 'believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.'

Rather than thinking of all the reasons why it's impossible to succeed, why not believe that it's impossible to fail? Dive into our impossible quotes to gain wisdom and inspiration about the impossible.

Impossible Quotes

Tohru, Tohru. You've got a fever again. You don't have to push yourself so hard. You don't have do things the way I did. You can just be yourself, do things your own way, one step at a time. You'll get there, I promise. Just be yourself, you'll be fine.

Tohru, Tohru. You’ve got a fever again. You don’t have to push yourself so hard. You don’t have do things the way I did. You can just be yourself, do things your own way, one step at a time. You’ll get there, I promise. Just be yourself, you’ll be fine.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn around and say “Watch me.”

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But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly

However, I can't be happy. I feel I can't have that experience, I can't assume I will have that experience. I'm free, but feeling lonely and disheartened. I hope there's happiness out there. Besides, the future is approaching and waiting for me. In the future, I will be a part of the world. I will finally live my life.

However, I can’t be happy. I feel I can’t have that experience, I can’t assume I will have that experience. I’m free, but feeling lonely

I've been wondering. How are things going with that wager we made? Go on, admit it. You can't beat him. And you never will. It's impossible. You should know by now--you were made to be inferior. The Cat was never meant to beat the Rat. And you will never beat Yuki. That's how it's always been. How it always will be. Accept it. Those who are born with a spirit are tied to that spirit's destiny, as I've told you before. This is the fate of your lineage. Kyo, you can't escape it.

I’ve been wondering. How are things going with that wager we made? Go on, admit it. You can’t beat him. And you never will. It’s

I wish I could explain your eyes And how the sound of your voice gives me butterflies How your smile makes my heart skip a beat And how every time I'm with you, I feel so complete.

I wish I could explain your eyes And how the sound of your voice gives me butterflies
How your smile makes my heart skip a beat
And

Everything you do is a source of joy for me. I can never be sad when I'm around you. Thanks for truly being there baby, I love you.

Everything you do is a source of joy for me. I can never be sad when I’m around you. Thanks for truly being there baby, I love you.

Imagining a life without you is something that is impossible, you make me complete and I want you to know you mean everything to me.

Imagining a life without you is something that is impossible, you make me complete and I want you to know you mean everything to me.

No one talked for a minute, and then Takumi asked, "Your dad blamed you?" "Well, not after that first moment. But yeah. How could he not?"

No one talked for a minute, and then Takumi asked, “Your dad blamed you?”

“Well, not after that first moment. But yeah. How could he not?”

There's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every new beginning comes at the cost of an ending.

There’s no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every new beginning comes at the cost of an ending.

The Colonel and I are walking back to our dorm room in silence. I am staring at the ground beneath me. I cannot stop thinking that she is dead, and I cannot stop thinking that she cannot possibly be dead. People do not just die. I can’t catch my breath.

The Colonel and I are walking back to our dorm room in silence. I am staring at the ground beneath me. I cannot stop thinking that she is dead, and I cannot stop thinking that she cannot possibly be dead. People do not just die. I can’t catch my breath.

It may seem impossible to find someone else after you've been hurt so badly, but once you find them, they'll be worth every tear.

It may seem impossible to find someone else after you’ve been hurt so badly, but once you find them, they’ll be worth every tear.

You cannot outwork God or impress Him. He is always in control of your life, and He will deal with whatever you bring to His table, He’ll take care of everything.

You cannot outwork God or impress Him. He is always in control of your life, and He will deal with whatever you bring to His table, He’ll take care of everything.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

"You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard."

“You can fight with me,” I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, “I can’t be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard.”

I, on the other hand......I was born in the Sohma Compound and have lived here all my life. Life outside these walls...is a complete mystery to me......but I...now that I've...reached this age, it's too late. I've spent...forty years...fifty years...sixty years...building my life here. It's too late for me to change it now. I can't change it. I...I'm...just...too old...for this...It's impossible...for me to change...everything...

I, on the other hand……I was born in the Sohma Compound and have lived here all my life. Life outside these walls…is a complete mystery to me……but I…now that I’ve…reached this age, it’s too late. I’ve spent…forty years…fifty years…sixty years…building my life here. It’s too late for me to change it now. I can’t change it. I…I’m…just…too old…for this…It’s impossible…for me to change…everything…

There's a great blunder which we commit. Through communication, we try to control people... The fact is that nobody can control anybody. All you can do is flow. You can flow with each other, like rivers and streams flow with each other and they all end up in the same ocean. All things come from God and all things go to God. It's a very simple formula which you have learned.

There’s a great blunder which we commit. Through communication, we try to control people… The fact is that nobody can control anybody. All you can do is flow. You can flow with each other, like rivers and streams flow with each other and they all end up in the same ocean. All things come from God and all things go to God. It’s a very simple formula which you have learned.

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working.

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working.

Mousa: This is Afghanistan... Alexander the Great try to conquer this country... then Genghis Khan, then the British. Now Russia. But Afghan people fight hard, they never be defeated. Ancient enemy make prayer about these people... you wish to hear? Rambo: Um-hum. Mousa: Very good. It says, 'May God deliver us from the venom of the Cobra, teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.' Understand what this means? Rambo: That you guys don't take any shit? Mousa: Yes... something like this.

Mousa: This is Afghanistan… Alexander the Great try to conquer this country… then Genghis Khan, then the British. Now Russia. But Afghan people fight hard, they never be defeated. Ancient enemy make prayer about these people… you wish to hear?
Rambo: Um-hum.
Mousa: Very good. It says, ‘May God deliver us from the venom of the Cobra, teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.’ Understand what this means?
Rambo: That you guys don’t take any shit?
Mousa: Yes… something like this.

Zaysen: Drop the weapons! Now! You have no chance of escape! Come forward! I wish to take you back alive! This is your last warning! The choice is yours! Trautman: What do you say, John? Rambo: Fuck 'em!

Zaysen: Drop the weapons! Now! You have no chance of escape! Come forward! I wish to take you back alive! This is your last warning! The choice is yours!
Trautman: What do you say, John?
Rambo: Fuck ’em!

I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me. And the accicide, the suident, would never be anything else, and I was left to ask, Did I help you toward a fate you didn’t want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? Because they are different crimes, and I didn’t know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me. And the accicide, the suident, would never be anything else, and I was left to ask, Did I help you toward a fate you didn’t want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? Because they are different crimes, and I didn’t know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

I hadn't slept for seven nights. My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, luminous course of the second hand and the minute hand and the hour hand of the bedside clock through their circles and semi-circles, every night for seven nights, without missing a second, or a minute, or an hour. The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly. I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue. It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.

I hadn’t slept for seven nights.

My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, luminous course of the second hand and the minute hand and the hour hand of the bedside clock through their circles and semi-circles, every night for seven nights, without missing a second, or a minute, or an hour.

The reason I hadn’t washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.

I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.

It made me tired just to think of it.

I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.

But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.

But [Pooh] couldn’t sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn’t. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh’s honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, “Very good honey this, I don’t know when I’ve tasted better,” Pooh could bear it no longer.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

I would never sleep. I knew that. Not with my blood ringing in my ears, and my heart beating an angry staccato rhythm in my chest. I would never relax.

I would never sleep. I knew that. Not with my blood ringing in my ears, and my heart beating an angry staccato rhythm in my chest. I would never relax.

Right now, our model is the culture of exhaustion. We need to be exhausted before we can fall asleep, so we keep pushing and pushing ourselves. But if a society can't rest, how can it sleep?

Right now, our model is the culture of exhaustion. We need to be exhausted before we can fall asleep, so we keep pushing and pushing ourselves. But if a society can’t rest, how can it sleep?

Neal: What's the flight situation? Del: Simple. There's no way on earth we're going to get out of here tonight. We'd have more luck playing pickup sticks with our butt-cheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak. Neal: I guess we'll find out soon enough. Del: Yeah, but by the time the airline cancels this flight, which they will sooner or later, you'd have more of a chance to find a three-legged ballerina than you would a hotel room. Neal: Are you saying I could be *stuck* in Wichita? Del: I'm saying you *are* stuck in Wichita.

Neal: What’s the flight situation?
Del: Simple. There’s no way on earth we’re going to get out of here tonight. We’d have more luck playing pickup sticks with our butt-cheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak.
Neal: I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Del: Yeah, but by the time the airline cancels this flight, which they will sooner or later, you’d have more of a chance to find a three-legged ballerina than you would a hotel room.
Neal: Are you saying I could be *stuck* in Wichita?
Del: I’m saying you *are* stuck in Wichita.

Owen: I'm to drive you to Wichita to catch a train? Del: Yeah, we'd appreciate it. Owen: Train don't run out of Wichita... unlessin' you're a hog or a cattle. People train runs out of Stubbville.

Owen: I’m to drive you to Wichita to catch a train?
Del: Yeah, we’d appreciate it.
Owen: Train don’t run out of Wichita… unlessin’ you’re a hog or a cattle. People train runs out of Stubbville.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that’s the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

People tell me I should be finding “closure" in my grief, but that's a misconception. My love and grief will never end. I will never fully close the door on my loss.

People tell me I should be finding “closure” in my grief, but that’s a misconception. My love and grief will never end. I will never fully close the door on my loss.

...closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.

…closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.

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