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I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul impossible.
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accompanied by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.
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.
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman-they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
We give our lives to that which we give our time. I have learned that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to unclutter one's life by starting at the top of the pile with the idea that the solution is to just get things sorted and better organized. It is nice to get better organized, but that is not enough. Much has to be discarded. We must actually get rid of it. To do this we need to develop a list of basics, a list of those things that are indispensable to our mortal welfare and happiness and our eternal salvation. This list must follow the gospel pattern and contain the elements needed for our sanctification and perfection. It must be the product of inspiration and prayerful judgment between the things we really need and things we just want. It should separate need from greed. It must be our best understanding of those things that are important as opposed to those things that are just interesting.
Truth is not a dress-suit, consecrated to special occasions, it is the strong, well-woven, durable homespun for daily living. Let us cultivate that sterling honor that holds our word so supreme, so sacred, that to forget it would seem a crime, to deny it would be impossible.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic.
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Sign in a retail florist shop. 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.
As an important project was begun, a bishop quoted an ancient sage as saying: If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible for us to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.
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