Impossible Quotes: Inspiration to Overcome

Sometimes we face challenges that seem insurmountable.  That means we have to lead ourselves our teams through impossible situations.  It’s important to remember that you’re not alone. Others have faced the appearance of impossibility before.

If you’re looking for impossible quotes – those that can inspire you past a seemingly impossible challenge, read on.  My favorite is Amelia Earhart’s impossible quote.

Enjoy!

“I have learned to use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” — Alexander the Great

“Impossibility: a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” — Walt Disney

“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”  — Doug Larson

“Impossibility is only the figment of an insufficient imagination.” — Phil Duncan

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” — Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” — Robert Goddard

“The impossible is often the untried.” — Jim Goodwin

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but in calculating risk and acting decisively.  Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.  Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”  — Niccolò Machiavelli

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paul Coelho

“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“Nothing is impossible.  The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” — Charles F. Kettering

“Every noble work is at first impossible.” — Thomas Carlisle

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you’re doing the impossible.” — St. Francis of Assisi

“The Wright brothers flew through the smokescreen of impossibility.” —  Dorothea Brande

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.” — Lewis Mumford

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”   —  Nelson Mandela

“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.” — Theodore Roethke

“To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.”  —  Dorothea Brande

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” — Aristotle

“The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible that which takes a little longer.” — George Santayana

“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”  — Amelia Earhart

Thanks for reading through these impossible quotes.  I also like Dorothea Brande’s inspiring quote about the Wright brothers.  

Which quote did you like best?  Do you have a favorite impossible quote that we missed? Please leave a comment and let us know.

Make it a great day!