Unattainable Quotes

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

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

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.

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

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

For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto whatever is not-audible, even though these things exist and are unattainable by hearing.

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

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

Attain the unattainable.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

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

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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

And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

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

I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

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

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.

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

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.