Definition of Relentless

Relentless

Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.

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Relentless Quotations

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.
Thomas Friedman

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

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 E. Gladstone

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Christopher Lasch

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
Zakk Wylde

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.
Julian Clary

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.
Ron Chernow

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.
Paul Gillmor

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

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
Daniel Okrent

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.
Franco Harris

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.
Hal Lindsey

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
Zachary Quinto

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.
Nelson A. Miles

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

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
Cass Elliot

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.
Steve Garvey

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
Preston Manning

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.
Mark Crispin Miller

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

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
Anna Howard Shaw

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Relentless Translations

relentless in Hungarian is irgalmatlan, kiengesztelhetetlen, hajthatatlan
relentless in Spanish is implacable
relentless in Swedish is obeveklig

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