Jacques Cousteau Quotes

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

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

God grants victory to perseverance.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.