Believe
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. — Doug Larson
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. — A. H. Weiler
“…Now I’ll give you something to believe. I’m just 101, five months and a day.”
“I ca’n’t believe that!” said Alice.
“Ca’n’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one ca’n’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast…” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. — Mother Teresa
We are continually faced with great opportunities, which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. — Margaret Mead
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno
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
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. — Samuel Johnson
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
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. — Arthur C. Clarke’s First Law
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
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — William Shakespeare
We would be badly off indeed if we were capable of enthusiasm only for the things in which we have faith. If that were the case, humanity would still be pursuing its existence in a hole in the ground; for everything that has made it possible to emerge from the cave and from the primeval jungle appeared in its first hour as a highly dubious undertaking. Nonetheless, we have been able to grow enthusiastic over our vision of these unconvincing exercises. We have put ourselves to work for the sake of an idea, seeking by magnificent exertions to arrive at the incredible. And in the end, we have arrived there. Beyond all doubt, it is one of the vital sources of human capability that we are able to kindle enthusiasm from the mere glimmer of something improbable, difficult, and remote. — José Ortega y Gasset
You write to me that it’s impossible; the word is not French. — Napoleon, writing to one of his generals