Impossible Dreams Quotes

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought

There are no impossible dreams.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?