> The counter-idiom, if you will, to "nothing can be done" might be "where there is a will, there is a way": I've always thought of the counter-idiom as being

> The counter-idiom, if you will, to "nothing can be done" might be "where there is a will, there is a way": I've always thought of the counter-idiom as being やればできる (yareba dekiru) -- "you can do it if you try."