Impossible Quotes

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

You can’t get blood out of a stone.

Boswell: It is impossible to refute it – Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, ‘I refute it thus.’

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. This is often the fate of long consideration; he does nothing who endeavors to do more than is allowed to humanity. Flatter not yourself with contrarieties of pleasure. […]

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.

Whatever has been effected for convenience or elegance, while it was yet unknown, was believed impossible; and therefore would never have been attempted, had not some, more daring than the rest, adventured to bid defiance to prejudice and censure.

You will never know what is possible for you until you attempt the impossible.