Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Nothing lasts forever -not even your troubles.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad.

Make your life a mission “ not an intermission.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

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

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.