Seth Godin Quotes

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

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

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.

If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

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

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

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.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

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.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.

For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.

People told me it was impossible to beat the Americans at their own game; there was a lot of politics involved and outsiders didn't stand a chance. But if you're good enough, nothing else matters - I'm living proof of it!

Everyday I'm just going to continue defying limitations.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

No matter if you have one hand or two hands, when someone tells you you can't do something, the only thing you can do is just prove them wrong, no matter what it is, no matter how hard it is.