Top 90 Impossible Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Empowering Quotes

2. “Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.”

— David Jeremiah

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Scripture Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

3. “Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Believing

4. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Personality Quotes, Mindset Quotes

5. “When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.”

— Nido R. Qubein

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Willpower Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

6. “Never give up, no matter what.”

— Louis Zamperini

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes

7. “Be realistic, demand the impossible!”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes

8. “Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Design Quotes

9. “I see only my objective – the obstacles must give way.”

— Napoleon

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes

10. “No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

11. “I don’t think limits.”

— Usain Bolt

Also featured in: Greatness Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Running Quotes

12. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

— Christopher Reeve

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Quotes About Hope

13. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

14. “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Different Quotes

15. “Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams, Future Quotes, Quotes About Hope

16. “I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

17. “The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes, Clever Quotes

18. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

19. “If you can’t, then you must!”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

20. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

— Noam Chomsky

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Clever Quotes

21. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Graduation Quotes, Vision Quotes

22. “Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

23. “The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible.”

— Mike Horn

Also featured in: Problem-Solving Quotes

24. “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”

— John Heywood

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Optimism Quotes

25. “There is nothing that you cannot be, do, or have.”

— Esther Hicks

Also featured in: Manifestation Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Good Morning Quotes

26. “The impossible I do immediately, miracles take a little longer.”

— David Berglas

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Magic Quotes

27. “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Also featured in: Smart Quotes

28. “All things are possible, only believe.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Victory Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

29. “Just remember: the people that say, ‘your dreams are impossible’ have already quit on theirs.”

— Grant Cardone

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

30. “We do today what they won’t, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can’t.”

— Dwayne Johnson

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Victory Quotes

31. “You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.”

— Michael Beckwith

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Miracle Quotes

32. “The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.”

— Arnold Palmer

Also featured in: Challenges Quotes

33. “As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Monday Quotes

34. “Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something, because you can!”

— Greg Plitt

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Doubt Quotes

35. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Imagination Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Crazy Quotes

36. “Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

37. “If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.”

— John Ortberg Jr.

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Discipleship Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

38. “Believe the unbelievable. Dream the impossible. Never take ‘No’ for an answer!”

— Tony Fernandes

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Vision Quotes

39. “Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

40. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.”

— Jack Canfield

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

41. “I don’t want realism. I want magic!”

— Tennessee Williams

Also featured in: Miracle Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Desire Quotes

42. “When people say you can’t do it – that it’s impossible – never lose hope. Just because they couldn’t doesn’t mean you can’t.”

— David Copperfield

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Resilience Quotes

43. “Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

44. “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What’s the point of being realistic? I’m going to do it. It’s done. It’s already done. The second I decide it’s done, it’s already done.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Intention Quotes, Willpower Quotes

45. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something.”

— Chris Gardner

Also featured in: Obstacles Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Hero Quotes, Doubt Quotes

46. “Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”

— Amelia Earhart

Also featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

47. “If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished – mountains can be crumbled into atoms.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

48. “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Silly Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

49. “Go ahead, do something impossible.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Boldness Quotes

50. “Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes