Michael Phelps Quotes

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

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

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

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

To overcome obstacles, you need solutions.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.