Unattainable Quotes

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

Nothing is unattainable when America comes together around a common cause.

Attain the unattainable.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

but then you realize that this ‘whole package’ everyone’s looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

A perfect work of art is not the one that has no mistakes. It is the one people will like. Creation is not perfect but god is praised for having created it

Perfection is a faux. It’s a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn’t us.

I love you till kingdom come, evergreen.

In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the defini

Perfection’s unattainable but it isn’t unapproachable.

Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it’s elusive and may be an illusion.

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes.