I am not good at English contexts. I used to say "Nothing is impossible" when someone denies/worries about something. In one website I have seen a new form that is "Impossible is nothing". But when I compare both sentences, I think the second form is correct. (When I translate it into my mother tongue.)
What is the difference between these two sentences and which should be used in what situations? Are both the same?
Best Answer
Both phrases are valid, but they both mean slightly different things. The phrase "impossible is nothing" evolved from "nothing is impossible".
Consider the following dialogue:
In this scenario, person A claims that doing X is not possible, but person B claims that this is not true. "Nothing is impossible" is a rejection of the claim that X cannot be done, by suggesting that problems abandoned for being "impossible" are typically "hard" rather than "impossible".
The phrase "impossible is nothing" is a very modern extension of this phrase into a boast, as shown below:
In this scenario, person B claims as before that many things people think are impossible are merely hard. But person C is saying that such problems are nothing - that is, trivial - for him.
So in summary, "Nothing is impossible" is a motivational phrase rejecting claims that something is "impossible" by claiming that it is only "difficult" rather than "impossible".
But "Impossible is nothing" is a boast - a claim that the speaker is able to easily perform feats that other people would think impossible to achieve.