Overcoming The Impossible Quotes & Sayings

They say it is impossible but I've overcome the odds before. — Mauricio Rua

But we're no longer rain, I said, we're no longer seeds. We're men. Now we can stand and decide. This is our first chance to choose our own unknown. I'm so proud of everything we've done, my brothers, and if we're fortunate enough to fly and land again in a new place, we must continue. As impossible as it sounds, we must keep walking. And yes, there has been suffering, but now there will be grace. There has been pain, but now there will be serenity. No one has been tried the way we have been tried, and now this is our reward. — Dave Eggers

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue. — Vladimir Putin

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be. — Brian Tracy

Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting. — James Frain

moral character gets formed through hardship, through overcoming obstacles, through enduring despite difficulties. Courage, for example, would be impossible in a world without pain. The apostle Paul testified to this refining quality of suffering when he wrote that 'suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.'13 — Lee Strobel

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor. — John Updike

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. — Czeslaw Milosz

The human spirit is courage incarnate, overcoming the impossible. — Angel M.B. Chadwick

Don't let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible. — Norman Vincent Peale

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children. — Carlos Delgado

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. — Susan Sontag

Depression is focusing on yourself; on your troubles and what is not right. You can't be depressed if you are focusing on others. It's impossible. — Elizabeth Bourgeret

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn't stop our minds from thinking. — Malala Yousafzai

He also possessed Aurelius' curious innocence in battle: the fearless forgetting which led him to attempt and to achieve the impossible. This would, of course, come to be noticed much later. But even now he could be seen to exhibit a certain disregard for his own safety. I recognized it well, and knew its source, for I had ridden with Aurelius.
In anyone else it would have been called carelessness. Or foolishness, more like. But it was never that. Arthur simply did not feel afraid. Daring, bravery, boldness, valor - these are qualities of overcoming fear.
What is it, then, when there is no fear? — Stephen R. Lawhead

How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue ... Pray more words about it than you speak. — Lysa TerKeurst

The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too. — W. H. Murray

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. — Winston S. Churchill

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers. — Bernard Holland

Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn that? — Emo Philips

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity. — John C. Maxwell

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor. Dr. Valentiner was keenly interested, considering my idea a potential base for a new school of modern art in America, as related to the social structure of American life as the art of the Middle Ages had been related to medieval society. — Diego Rivera

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible. — Erwin W. Lutzer

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know. — Panda Bear

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness. — Michael Dirda

You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same time know that man does not live in nature but in history, and that in present-day understanding it was founded by Christ, that its foundation is the Gospel. And what is history? It is the setting in motion of centuries of work at the gradual unriddling of death and its eventual overcoming. Hence the discovery of mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, hence the writing of symphonies. It is impossible to move on in that direction without a certain uplift. These discoveries call for spiritual equipment. The grounds for it are contained in the Gospel. They are these. First, love of one's neighbor, that highest form of living energy, overflowing man's heart and demanding to be let out and spent, and then the main component parts of modern man, without which he is unthinkable
namely, the idea of the free person and the idea of life as sacrifice. — Boris Pasternak