Unattainable Quotes
131 quotes by 121 authors
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
— Jennifer Aniston
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These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever…
— Adolf Hitler
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Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.
— Kara Goucher
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
— Albert Einstein
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the…
— Lytton Strachey
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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?
— Joaquin Phoenix
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As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job,…
— John Wooden
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I…
— Dorothea Lange
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World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is…
— Russell Crowe
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One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
— Ralph Barton Perry
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.
— Alma Powell
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