Top 100 Be Ruthless Quotes
#1. Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
Beau Willimon
#2. I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.
Stephen Karam
#3. Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.
Jorge Luis Borges
#4. Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie - they see nothing wrong with it.
Alexander McCall Smith
#5. I wanted him to be ruthless, I wanted him to be fearless, I wanted him to take the biggest risk possible for me and be a hero.
Angela Richardson
#6. I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
Anthony Hopkins
#8. Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#9. I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
Theresa May
#10. Apart from the added efficiency, the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation. Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed,
Raghuram G. Rajan
#11. The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.
Steven Pressfield
#12. We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.
Robert Sirico
#13. You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.
Patton Oswalt
#14. It takes great courage when you are suffering to see beyond your suffering to the clear relations between things, to the laws that cause and govern your suffering; it takes great courage to be ruthless with one's griefs.
Andre Harvey
#15. Fact: you can never know another person completely.
Fact: you are born alone and die alone.
Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it.
Fact: love is not perfect.
Fact: neither am I.
Karen Marie Moning
#16. If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.
Jeff Cooper
#17. Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.
Ian Hogarth
#18. One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
John Berryman
#19. The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
Catherine Keener
#20. I can be ruthless, unforgiving, and a manipulative bastard. But I don't play games with sex.
Naima Simone
#21. You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.
Andy Murray
#23. I knew you lived," her mother said after a moment. "Any daughter of mine would be ruthless enough.
Rosamund Hodge
#24. This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Charlie Chaplin
#25. Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.
David Gemmell
#26. I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
Alastair Campbell
#27. If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
Warren Buffett
#28. I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
Tom Hanks
#29. But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.
Neil Burger
#30. As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
George W. Bush
#31. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life ...
Woodrow Wilson
#32. Whenever something bad happens, do not forget to smile. Even if you have to deal with this really arrogant, ruthless tycoon. You never know, sometimes a very rude and arrogant person can be melted with a heartfelt smile.
Zainab T. Khan
#33. No one will be more brutal than me. No one will be more ruthless. And I will never stop fighting.
Kiersten White
#34. Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
Rita Mae Brown
#35. If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.
J.K. Rowling
#36. I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
William Manchester
#37. Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.
Thomas Malthus
#38. Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in!
Lemony Snicket
#39. Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
Frederick Douglass
#40. History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#41. If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met. Whap the girls on the butts and send them off to their tricks as fast and often as I can.
Joe Hill
#42. I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's 'policy' is benevolent, can you now?
John Le Carre
#43. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.
Paul Murray Kendall
#44. One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?
Nina George
#45. I also know how ruthless and reckless young women can be when their ovaries overheat. My darling little Tehuti's Gonads had caught fire at the first sight of him. I could think of no feasible way to quench the flames.
Wilbur Smith
#46. John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.
Douglas Brinkley
#47. Breath,Thoughts, Feelings and Words are precious..
Be ruthlessly aware so you never waste these..
Ruthless with yourself..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#48. The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth
but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge ...
Radclyffe Hall
#49. Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.
Erik Erikson
#50. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop! ... ever ... until you are dead!
James Cameron
#51. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#52. Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.
Max Barry
#53. The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
Salman Rushdie
#54. It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.
Jamie Babbit
#55. Chris is a little ashamed of having once fallen for him: it makes him sad how everything changes, how ruthless the heart can be.
Paul Russell
#56. The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set.
Terry Tempest Williams
#57. This is why I stayed away," he growled against my mouth as his hands started to rove over me with knowing, ruthless passion. "Can't be near you without wanting you. Can't stop myself anymore
Jeaniene Frost
#58. It is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
Karl Marx
#59. How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?
William Longgood
#60. What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist; he has not only to learn one trade, but to learn it so well as to uphold him in a more or less ruthless society.
G.K. Chesterton
#61. Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile ...
Theodore White
#62. I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
Dorothy Parker
#63. The world is ruthless, heartless, hurtful, spiteful, selfish and much more, but that is no reason for you to be the same. That will ensure there is no difference between you and them.
Be different - Be YOU
Namrata
#64. It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
Jessamyn West
#65. Who might you be?" she demanded. "A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony?
Pawan Mishra
#66. Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.
James C. Collins
#67. Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
Eric Hoffer
#68. There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.
Frederick Lenz
#69. I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.
Leon Uris
#70. For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.
Vin Diesel
#71. I win by taking risks. By standing out. Mom hates how I ride Tucker right past the judge as many times as possible in a class. She says it's showboating and it's tacky. Some judges don't like it. Long ago, though, I decided I'd rather win being me than lose by playing it safe.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#72. As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras
#73. Hitler spoke at length about the impact of his own personal Catholic faith on his political activism, noting that it was his religious convictions in particular that compelled him to be a ruthless anti-Semite.
Derek Hastings
#74. Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.
Marie Wilson
#75. My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.
Maria Shriver
#76. Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.
Vladimir Lenin
#77. The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.
Tom Clancy
#78. books were girls, and reading was s-ss-ssss - fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met.
Joe Hill
#79. I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
Mo Rocca
#81. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.
Harper Lee
#82. Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or I just can be a ruthless man without any clue of "what I am"?
This is the Question.
Fereidoon Yazdi
#83. Kind people who put others before themselves would be the first to die. It was the ruthless and the selfish who would survive.
Hyeonseo Lee
#84. We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
Cormac McCarthy
#85. No one survived on the streets without a protective mask. No one survived naked. You had to have a role. You had to be "thug," "playa," "athlete," "gangsta," or "dope man." Otherwise, there was only one role left to you: "victim.
Jerry Heller
#86. Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#87. A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
Robert Dallek
#88. The flaw is when the "might makes right" rule vests property rights in whichever local actors can be the most ruthless or terrifying. That first step is the flaw that any market system worthy of the name must correct.
Christopher Heath Wellman
#89. We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.
Dan Mathews
#90. Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?
Linda Colley
#91. Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short
#92. Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem - no such thing - a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.
Ben Lerner
#93. And he has to be handsome, unbelievably handsome, impossibly handsome with a strong, square jaw and powerful cheekbones and tanned skin and beautiful eyes with lush, thick lashes. He has to be clever and very wealthy but hard-working. He has to be virile, fierce, ruthless and rugged.
Kristen Ashley
#94. A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first."
Finn eyed me. "Sometimes I think you're even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am."
I grinned. "You only wish you could be as ruthless as me."
"Absolutely.
Jennifer Estep
#96. It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.
Lindsey Davis
#97. Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
#98. Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.
Harry S. Truman
#99. In this otherworldly moment I am profoundly grateful to be here, to be alone, to experience this thing that no one has ever experienced and that no one else ever will.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#100. His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.
Jack Newfield
