Unattainable Quotes

131 quotes by 121 authors

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
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. — Jennifer Aniston
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of… — Charles Lindbergh
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
Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable. — Kara Goucher
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
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
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
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream? — Joaquin Phoenix
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection. — Ralph Barton Perry
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
Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause. — Alma Powell

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