Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's read more

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have read more

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.