Quotes About Relentless

#1. Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

William Ewart Gladstone

#2. Here lies the heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.

Joan Didion

#3. The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist.

James A. Michener

#4. The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

#5. Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.

Vince Aletti

#6. Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

Ayn Rand

#7. Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Suzanne Brockmann

#8. None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.

Laurie Graham

#9. Be relentless and then you'll break through.

Julie Brown

#10. I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

Robert Goolrick

#11. Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Simon Pegg

#12. That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#14. They died, leaving behind the kind of void that is never filled, a relentless ache that follows an abandoned child throughout her entire life. And

Lisa Gardner

#15. David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

Alex Ferguson

#16. Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

Alfred Stieglitz

#17. Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Emma Goldman

#18. Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

Teju Cole

#19. That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

Rose Wilder Lane

#20. With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Eric Sevareid

#21. The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

Mark Doty

#22. The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.

Kyle Baker

#23. One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed, and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

Sam Altman

#24. Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

Mitt Romney

#25. Success is a journey toward the relentless pursuit of perfection but not a destination.

Debasish Mridha

#26. She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#27. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

Thomas Gray

#28. The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

Robin Sharma

#29. This is how I want you: larger and smaller stronger and weaker taller and trembling more, more out of breath that I more burning more penetrating bolder bossier more yielding more frightened narrower and more relentless than you are more than I.

Helene Cixous

#30. Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Preston Manning

#31. Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

Laurance Rockefeller

#32. The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

John Cariani

#33. I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

Benjamin Zander

#34. Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Fannie Hurst

#35. Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Atul Gawande

#36. It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.

Arianna Huffington

#37. The relentless don't settle for quiet when their creativity is blossoming. They may encounter crevices and falter. Yet, their soul will corrode any indifference.

Tina McKeon

#38. The rabid ferocity of his reaction had confirmed Mother's warnings, but I didn't yet comprehend the depth of the revulsion that I inspired or how relentless he would be in his determination to kill me.

Dean Koontz

#39. Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run.

Md. Mujib Ullah

#40. On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless pace being set at the top of the league in which every stumble is a serious fall and draws usually constitute two dropped points.

Pete Gill

#41. Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Laozi

#42. Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.

Eve Ensler

#43. I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#44. We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

Charles Schumer

#45. What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

Anson Dorrance

#46. Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have ... All you need to have is faith in God, and undying passion for what you do, what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful at whatever you put your mind to.

Stephen Curry

#47. My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

A. J. Jacobs

#48. The relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

Linda Ronstadt

#49. On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

Anna Howard Shaw

#50. She's like a Dalek with a blacklist. Absolutely relentless.

Ashley Poston

#51. The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#52. But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

C.S. Lewis

#53. Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.

Ellen Hopkins

#54. I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's usually thirty to thirty-four. Nobody is forty in their head. When it comes to your internal age, chin wattles and relentless liver spots mean nothing.

Douglas Coupland

#55. The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

Mark Crispin Miller

#56. When we are driven by ego and a relentless need to succeed, it's easy to blindly neglect the relationships, self-care and truth that will create joy and authentic fulfillment in our lives.

Shannon Tanner

#57. Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

Sarah Hughes

#58. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

Sylvia Plath

#59. Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

Sam Lipsyte

#60. Why did I think I could keep my distance? Why would I want to? Love is relentless.

M. Pierce

#61. Movements- driven by such unexpected need, fueled by such a relentless desire, and crashing into unimaginable possibilities.

K. Bromberg

#62. When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

Demetri Martin

#63. Relentless rain, like a non-stop talker.

Marty Rubin

#64. So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Barack Obama

#65. Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

Alain De Botton

#66. President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

Jonathan Kozol

#67. Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.

Rae Carson

#68. Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding

John Kenneth Galbraith

#69. She was the eldest now and had inherited the vague, relentless, unsolicited responsibility such familial rank demanded.

Kate Morton

#70. Shooting a pistol while running with any accuracy at all is next to impossible. They train us at the Academy to do it at a walk. Slow yourself down, focus on the target. Be relentless, but be accurate. Nobody ever won a gunfight by missing what they were aiming at.

Jonathan Maberry

#71. Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

Franz Bardon

#72. If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.

Mary Ellen Mark

#73. I was adrift, tugged and pulled by the gravity of solitude, a festering hunger driving me like a relentless martinet

Peter Tieryas

#74. You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.

Danica Patrick

#75. Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram
that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

Lady Gaga

#76. Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

Jeremy Rifkin

#77. There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

Sam Harris

#78. Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

Wendy Kopp

#79. Time, she felt, made quite enough claims on us, without our conniving in its relentless tyranny.

Alexander McCall Smith

#80. In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

Fannie Barrier Williams

#81. The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

Vladimir Lenin

#82. A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.

Dean Goodman

#84. I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

Bernie Mac

#85. Youth faces forward, impatient of the present, panting to anticipate the future. But we who have crossed a certain sad meridian, we turn our gaze backward,and tell the relentless gods what we would sacrifice to recover a little of the past...

Henry Harland

#86. You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

Ed Harris

#87. Love, certainly, might be a momentarily strong force capable of moving individuals in strange and remarkable ways, but given sufficient time and the relentless weathering effects of repetition it will always and ultimately diffuse into boredom and melancholy.

John Zande

#88. She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people.

Dorothy Simpson

#89. As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

Jay Samit

#90. 'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

Edward Hirsch

#91. I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

Alex Hirsch

#92. This relentless bonhomie of yours, I knew it would wear out in the end. It is a coin that has changed hands so often. And now the small silver is worn out and we see the base metal.

Hilary Mantel

#93. Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#94. That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.

Joy Williams

#95. I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless.

Jon Beason

#96. It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top.

Bill Bryson

#97. In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Tullian Tchividjian

#98. The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley. The fans there are relentless. They don't stop at all. They keep going.

Darren McFadden

#99. Her feet tingled. One whole hour to forget about the leaky kitchen sink, her father's retirement party, and her mother's relentless questions about it. She closed her eyes. One whole hour to completely unwind and indulge her thoughts in something beside caterers, plumbers, and homicide cases.

Lisa Harris

#100. And so I have remained, in relentless pursuit of truth and excellence, an unforgiving executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.

Louise Brooks