Top 207 Unattainable Quotes & Sayings

I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.

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

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.

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

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

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

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

Chasing after the unattainable is the fun part.

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

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

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.

I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.

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

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

There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and accomplishing a goal that seems unattainable. You have to find your motivation, what inspires you.

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

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

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 it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

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

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

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

Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.

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

When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

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

Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

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

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

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

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

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.

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Attain the unattainable.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

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

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

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

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.

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

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

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.

Celebrity is this thing that's unattainable. This unattainable lifestyle. This unattainable social status. But there's nothing more commonplace than dying from hot sauce.

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

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.